Aral Balkan
I love it. There’s a poll ongoing about whether folks would ban a Meta (Instagram/Facebook) instance and people are like “well, I’d give them the benefit of the doubt.”
I really have no words.
Is it learned helplessness? Stockholm Syndrome? Masochism? Something else?
I just don‘t get it.
#SiliconValley #BigTech #SurveillanceCapitalism #PlayItAgainSam
Aral Balkan
And here’s what’s saddest: the question itself is moot.
Because mastodon.social wouldn’t block it.
Instead, we’d hear about how Meta joining the fediverse is a Good Thing™.
This would be about a year or so before Meta or some other major instance with major Silicon Valley money displaces mastodon.social as the primary fediverse instance.
At which point maybe a certain someone will realise that legitimising Big Tech-style scale and centralisation is a silly strategy when you’re not Big Tech.
Aral Balkan
But this is inevitable. It’s written into the design of ActivityPub.
It could be delayed using social pressure but I’m not seeing that from those from whom it would matter.
So it’ll last for as long as it does. Hopefully, that’ll be long enough so we can use the fediverse to bridge off to actually decentralised alternatives like the Small Web.
(I know I’m working against a deadline here. I just wish we’d do everything we could to keep the fediverse as a stopgap for as long as possible.)
Aral Balkan
@edendestroyer *sigh*
EdenDestroyer (He/Him)
@aral eugen has already expressed his welcome
Aral Balkan
@serpentroots Well, think about it, is Instagram working hard to make it easier for you to avoid Instagram?
Tom
@aral I guess the way I was thinking about it was that I'd love to see some of my close friends Instagram posts federated into a Pixelfed instance so that I could avoid Instagram entirely. I know this probably isn't likely with the competing ethics.
Aral Balkan
@powersource It’s “everyone runs their own servers and I got started in 30 seconds without any technical knowledge and I don’t need to maintain it and, gosh darn, isn’t it cool that my local municipality pays for it? (for example/one possible scenario).”
Powersource
@aral isn't "Small Web" a case of "everyone runs their own servers"? Or have i misunderstood it? I don't understand how that'd be a better alternative to mastodon.
fatboy :mxlinux: :debian:
@aral Meta should be banned and fined 100 Billion Dollars for trying to join the Fediverse
Aral Balkan
@fatboy 🤣👍
Aral Balkan
@fabiscafe Yes, let’s see how the trillion-dollar, publicly-traded mass surveillance machine joins. Let’s give them the benefit of the doubt. Maybe they’ve changed.
Sheep who can’t recognise a wolf are destined to become its dinner.
Fabian (Bocchi) 🏳️🌈
@aral I also believe it's a good thing. At first we have to see how they join. In what way and how much they are compatible to the services we use. It could end up like lemmy, where you can find the posts if you search for them but they wont show up in your timeline.
Other than that, yes, it will be a competition. We still should welcome them. We're not the hateful fediverse that hates everything new.
Aral Balkan
@fabiscafe I don’t. That was sarcasm.
Fabian (Bocchi) 🏳️🌈
@aral Why do you think they've changed?
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