Aral BalkanI’m seeing some posts about the fediverse along the lines of “we welcome our new venture capitalist and Big Tech overlords… what could possibly go wrong?”
What could possibly go wrong? Oh, I don’t know… take a look at the whole damn web. Take a look at email. Take a look at any resource that was originally part of the commons but was then enclosed/captured by corporate interests. Read up on embrace, extend, and extinguish.
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