Dan GillmorNov 23, 2022

If you're planning to leave Twitter because a sociopath CEO makes you sick to your stomach and is wrecking the place, please think twice before heading to another centralized service where you risk the same problem at some point.

Decentralized is the best way forward.

Show threadChris Pirillo
@dangillmor @mikemacapple ...I don't disagree, but it seems inevitable that the pendulum will swing back and/or stick with centralization. The masses (not pejorative) will follow the path of least resistance - and that, typically, has not been open. Moreover, there's a real risk - voiced by those far more intelligent than me on such matters - of co-opting. Google basically killed RSS; when Reader died, so many thought feeds did as well. "Social Media" took 'geek' out of the value prop.
Nov 23, 2022 at 4:54amWeb
Show threadTris HusseyNov 23, 2022
@mikemacapple @ChrisPirillo @dangillmor l only know a few people who use RSS readers anymore. Heck I stopped using Feedly years ago. So, yeah we'll have a time when open and decentralized will come back, but then someone will create an “easier Mastodon” and things will shift back. But…maybe easier Mastodon won’t be free and things might be marginally better.
Show threadDan GillmorNov 23, 2022
@ChrisPirillo @mikemacapple We have to work on changing the default assumptions, even as we work on preventing the co-option that Big Tech/Media will surely attempt. Google's betrayal of the web was profound, and earned endless mistrust from people who were paying attention.