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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2023 17:45:23 JST Aral Balkan

   Folks in Silicon Valley: We’re so glad some poor schmuck created Mastodon on his own dime and time while we were making mint festering the Twitters of the world. Isn’t it great? We’re really enjoying it… Now, how do we enclose, exploit, and monetise the shit out of this thing?

   #SiliconValley #BigTech #peopleFarmers #fediverse #mastodon #enclosure #embraceExtendExtinguish #ventureCapital #vc #billionaire #douchebags

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2023 17:57:15 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     For the reply guys, to save you some trouble:

     1. I know Mastodon isn’t the fediverse

     2. I know Eugen didn’t create Mastodon all by himself (but he did start it)

     3. Of course everyone in Silicon Valley isn’t enjoying Mastodon.

     4. Of course everyone in Silicon Valley is not some cartoon villain. Some merely work for them.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2023 17:59:33 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     • Pablo

     @pacumo Keep your ears open and you can’t miss it. Almost every other day folks are celebrating some Big Tech org or other’s announcement that they’re “embracing” the fediverse. See Tumblr, etc. And yes, follow the VC money.

   • Pablo (pacumo@hostux.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2023 17:59:34 JST Pablo

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     @aral Are there plans to enclose, exploit, and monetise the shit out of this thing?

     Ok, now that I read it... yeah obviously, there must be, VC gona VC...

     But for my education, anything concrete I should be wary of?