Michael Kane 🇺🇸Dec 19, 2022
Doug

"Until a comparable sum has been spent refining decentralized, federated services, any claims about the impossibility of making the fediverse work for mass audiences should be treated as unfalsifiable, motivated reasoning."- Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic)

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/19/better-failure/

Pluralistic: Better failure for social media (19 Dec 2022) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Dec 19, 2022 at 5:05pmWeb
Show threadKevix (he/him) :debian:Dec 19, 2022
@d @pluralistic
The issue is that capitalism is what lead to those funds. How is that possible with current federated networks?
Show threadDougDec 19, 2022
@kevix @pluralistic I think the point is rather that the claims shouldn't be made as it's bad faith reasoning.
Show thread'|Dec 19, 2022
@d @pluralistic excellent analysis, as always.
Show threadtriswebDec 19, 2022
@d @pluralistic exactly. It is scaling. And we have lots of options on the table to continue scaling.