Notices by ophiocephalic 🐍 (ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social)

Among the schemes discussed to move the Zuckerverse - sorry, Fediverse - forward:

- Monetization of fediverse interactions: https://fediforum.org/2023-09/session/4-a/

- Crypto functionality: https://fediforum.org/2023-09/session/3-d/

- Location tracking: https://fediforum.org/2023-09/session/4-c/

- Individual reputation scoring: https://fediforum.org/2023-09/session/1-d/

- Contact book ingestion: https://fediforum.org/2023-09/session/2-d/

- For-profit revenue models: https://fediforum.org/2023-09/session/5-c/

- Facebook feature incorporation: https://fediforum.org/2023-09/session/4-h/

#FreeFediverse #FediPact #DefederateMeta #Meta #Facebook #Threads #FediForum ...and no more

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The notes and accounts from the FediForum in late September suggest that some of "the people who move the fediverse forward", as the conference promotes itself as platforming, are also acutely interested in moving forward the agenda of Meta.

The forum's notes tell the tale. Though a number of topics, including many of genuine benefit, were touched upon, digging through the sessions turns up a path of breadcrumbs that leads straight back to Palo Alto.

https://fediforum.org/2023-09/

#FreeFediverse #FediPact #DefederateMeta #Meta #Facebook #Threads #FediForum ...and no more

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@aral In the early days of covid testing the City of SF was setting up *public* testing centers which required a google account to get tested. They roped a lot of economically marginalized people with that scheme. It's a pestilence

@tomstoneham @aral And facebook was built on CentOS. But is the implication here that open source licenses should be less permissive, i.e. conditioned on reciprocation and ethical application?

@aral I always cringe at Aral's anti-Mozilla tirades (in the best sense of the term) bc the nightmare scenario, a Chrome monopoly monoculture, is rapidly approaching and people always take this critique as a prompt to stay away from Firefox. The reality is - short of Tor - arkenfox-configured Firefox is far and away the best privacy-respecting browser choice. Librewolf is a Firefox fork that embeds many of the arkenfox protections off the shelf. Keep going Aral, you're right about Mozilla