@MonKaiju @parismarx @MattBinder

Just got around to listening to this episode yesterday and, similarly, came away a bit disheartened.

After listening to this, it sounds like a lot of high profile lefty folk have run away from one billionaire's play toy only to embrace another one.

Mastodon might not be as slick as Bluesky is, for sure, but it doesn't have all the big funding and resources from big right wing silicon valley funders that Bluesky will surely have.

I even read that Mastodon was offered that kind of money but the team rejected it, on principle.

I do get the need to be where other people are at and to make sure that bad politics is challenged in those spaces.

I fully understand that and support people doing that.

At the same time, though, making an asserted effort to support the building of alternatives (as much that does exist) would be nice too.

In the activist/lefty scene, I have ended up defaulting to specialising in only doing tech related stuff because no-one else volunteers for it.

More recently, I've been looking into how I can make those more specialised techy roles as accessible as I can - up to the point that someone like myself doesn't have to be involved at all.

I really want more people to feel comfortable in not just updating content on a website, but as far as being able to set up their own complete web services and for those services to be secure and resilient.

Building the new world in the shell of the old takes time, though.

Whether that refers, generally, to bringing about political change or, more directly, to teaching, learning and building a software ecosystem.

In the activist scene, people don't have any patience, though.

Because change does need to happen right now. Change needed to happen decades ago.

If these big tech emperors could turn back time, though, they would do everything they could to prevent the internet from being as open as it is right now.

If federated social networking is the future of social media, I think it's very clear that we should be doing everything we can to prevent someone like Jack Dorsey shaping that future and do as much as possible to support alternatives.

#BlueSky #BlueSkyWeb