Andrew (Television Executive)Nov 18, 2022

Here's your irregular reminder that:

Twitter was a multi-billion dollar company with thousands of employees.

Mastodon is a niche hobbyist product run by volunteers

The fact that we're being seen as a viable alternative to them is an admission that a federated, decentralized future is not only possible, but desirable.

Mastodon is not one thing, or one place. It's a network of many things and many places. We don't have a spokesperson (I mean, there's me. I'm the official spokesperson for 💯 of the fediverse, but beyond me there is no spokesperson) we don't have consensus on moderation or blocking or tools or what is good and what is bad. Some of us are professional SREs and Sysadmins, some of us aren't. Some of our instances have been around for 5+ years, some won't be here in six months.

And that's good! All of it, every last bit of it is good.

We're wrestling power away from the billionaire class, in real time, and reclaiming it for the People.

Show threadAndrew (Television Executive)Nov 18, 2022

We're wrestling power away from the billionaire class, in real time.

This is bigger than some technical standard.

This is cultural, political, and economic.

We represent an existential threat to the business model of some of the most wealthy corporations on the planet, and I'll be damned if I'm going to let anyone take that away from us without fighting against it with everything I have.

We are standing on the precipice of a transformative shift in the way we, as a society, relate to one another through the internet.

We are moving away from a Broadcast and Toward a conversation.

Show threadAndrew (Television Executive)Nov 18, 2022

This is mutual aid, this is anticapitalism, this is collaborative ideation.

We are living revolutionary values, right here, right now, on a silly little social media network.

And I will fight to my last breathe any God Damn corporation that tries to Monetize that.

This is the future, and you're a part of it now. Be a good steward of the future.

Show threadAral BalkanNov 18, 2022
@ajroach42 Which is why we also have to be vigilant about corporations capturing the narrative via corporate proxies like the W3C (who are already publicly patting themselves on the back for having gifted us the fediverse).
Show threadMike 🍁
@aral @ajroach42 I had to lookup W3C first. But they are doing this??
Nov 19, 2022 at 12:15amWeb
Show threadAral BalkanNov 19, 2022

@ravensview @ajroach42 Look at their membership and the business models of their members. How many of them are surveillance capitalists? (I’ll start the list: Google, Meta, Adobe…)

To see what I mean about surveillance capitalists, see which of those companies are also on https://better.fyi/trackers and also see https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4oOCLIrB-0c

Better

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Show threadSimon LucyDec 6, 2023

@aral @ravensview @ajroach42

Rather than just dismiss it.
W3C is a standards organisation with a membership of organisations, many organisations.

For those interested in knowing more about it:
https://www.w3.org/membership/

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