Adam ConoverOn this week's Factually, @pluralistic joined me to talk about Chokepoint Capitalism, and how creative workers can free ourselves from its clutches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5txRrCrfTyY
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Reuploaded a new version, with fixed audio levels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vluAOGJPPoM
Christopher@adamconover Doctorow's articles and ideas have been floating around here since Twitter started to collapse, so it was great to hear him discuss them. Great interview!
Gary Bunker@adamconover @pluralistic Two of my favorite social commentary geeks in one place!
Our_Oathbreaker@adamconover does Cory have a Mastodon?
SuperDanC@adamconover This was great Adam. It inspired me to rewatch your show!
Winter Trabex@adamconover This was so easy to watch, I really enjoyed it.
MVNDVS PATEAT@adamconover I hope you know that this will result in about half a dozen Adam/Cory RPF fics on AO3
Adam Johnson@adamconover Just watched the Capitalism Ruins Everything video, awesome stuff!
Sarah@adamconover @pluralistic watching/listening to it right now. Keep up the good work
Wendy Lady@adamconover @pluralistic I feel like some are here in Mastodon cars saying "alright get in the car" and then complaining that not everyone is in the car that used to drive like Twitter.
I've been in my new car for a while now and realized that...I kinda missed the silence of pre-algorithm social media and it's actually kinda nice to not have to engage at every single moment of the day. I don't need a large following or to have a continuous feed to be happy.
I even have been...going outside. It's weird.
PacoBell@adamconover @pluralistic Just started listening, but I can't help but think that this episode got the "explicit" label simply due to vocalizing the coined term "enshittification" π
Nick Istre@adamconover I didn't know you had a Mastodon account until this video. Might want to add a link to it on your website with the other social media links.
Rassilonian LegateSame here, watching on youtube rn and I looked for his account *as soon as* he mentioned it
γ°γ¬γ§γgreyγ@adamconover Nice to hear @pluralistic mention @tomjennings in passing!
Though that tale explored in depth (particularly with mention of Gary Kildall and Digital Research which weren't mentioned) could probably be an episode in and of itself.
The IBMPC was definitely not designed to be commodity hardware, and it wasn't thanks to M$/Bill Gates nor Paul Allen things ended up the way they did.
Cristin Pescosolido@adamconover @pluralistic always fun when pilers get together!
@adamconover @pluralistic gah. I hate typos in my damn comments. edited for what I really meant :)
@adamconover @pluralistic I'd prefer the title "Monopoly Ruins Everything" personally.
Adam Vidiksis π@adamconover @pluralistic Great episode!
Jari PennanenThis leads me to think, while @gruber is right in criticizing the free server model and volunteerism in Mastodon, the Medium's server in long run might not be more sustainable.
Company incentives aren't towards interoperability in long run, https://youtu.be/5txRrCrfTyY?t=1321 (22:01 onwards) tech has a history of capturing decentralized system and centralizing it.
IMO solution could be to have paid server, but have a non-profit like Mastodon gGmbH run it.
Chokepoint Capitalism with Cory Doctorow - FACTUALLY Podcast
@adamconover @pluralistic @gruber
If more #YouTubers ever come to #Mastodon, they need to think about which server they want their audience to be?
Followers are capital in Mastodon too, like on YouTube and Twitter. If they let their audience coalesce to for-profit Mastodon servers outside their control, they don't gain a lot.
However, if there are sustainable non-profit servers, the big creators can point their audience to make accounts there, and those act as a kind of demilitarized zone.
clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ@Ciantic @gruber @pluralistic @adamconover There are several examples on Fedi, social.coop being one.
aijooyoomChokepoint Capitalism with Cory Doctorow - FACTUALLY Podcast
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=vluAOGJPPoM
Yewtu.be link to improve privacy for everyone.
Chokepoint Capitalism with Cory Doctorow - FACTUALLY Podcast
SUBSCRIBE TO FACTUALLY PODCAST: https://bit.ly/3l4Lk6b SEE ADAM LIVE NEAR YOU: http://adamconover.net/tourdates How can creative workers and individuals defend ourselves against the largest monopolies in the US? This week author and activist Cory Doctorow joins Adam on Factually to discuss how chokepoint capitalism causes the enshittification of everything we love and how we can fight back. Reposted for audio fix. Previous upload had 11K views.
LPS@aijooyoom @pluralistic @adamconover thx for including a non-youtube link, it's always appreciated:)