sarah zedig! 🍉🐐

it's cool to see twitter breaking a major function of cross-platform info sharing by killing off-site embeds in exactly the same way google did by killing reader, the same way apple did by killing flash

the enemy of all infrastructural stability online is the corporation's irrational hunger for profit at all costs. just because the head of today's dragon is a fucking court jester doesn't change the fact that this will only keep happening as long as the web is a playground for venture capital

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Show threadsarah zedig! 🍉🐐Jul 1, 2023

yes yes yes elon is a divorced capitalist pig who abuses his workers and demands unquestioning loyalty from his fans and loved ones, everybody laugh, it's a funny spectacle

but he isn't The problem. he is to online infrastructure what trump was to the us presidency: a walking talking exposé on how much the essential power structures that define our society run on verbal agreements and vaguely defined norms. absolutely everything we rely on is designed to be bought and plundered sooner or later

Show threadsarah zedig! 🍉🐐Jul 1, 2023
i don't want Another Twitter i want digital infrastructure that i know will still be around in 15 years
Show threadsarah zedig! 🍉🐐Jul 1, 2023
thanks for coming everybody, go watch my video essays
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Show threadJustin FitzsimmonsJul 1, 2023
@sarahzedig hope youtube is still around in 15 years lol 🤞
Show threadspheruliticJul 2, 2023
@smn doubtful. It’s already well down the path of enshittification
Show threaddoeJul 1, 2023

@sarahzedig i dont want another twitter i want everyone to realize that our relationship to the internet is unhealthy and needs to be rethought from the bottom up, starting with people taking control of the infrastructure they use to communicate online with.

i'm ready for the mutations to start.

Show threadknightlyJul 1, 2023
@exiliaex @sarahzedig
Likewise. I'm so ready for something to supplant Telegram and Discord and all the rest. Something fully-decentralized and ideally peer-to-peer but also redundant enough to tolerate the loss of a node to hardware failure and enable the user to recover their profile.
Show threadBill WoodcockJul 1, 2023
@sarahzedig

Not everything. Musk is a carpetbagger, trying to create a walled garden _on top of_ the Internet. But the Internet is still there, available to everyone who wants to use it. Open protocols are still there, for everyone who wants to communicate. Google and Office365 and all the scams running on top of the Internet can and should be ignored. If you ignore them, they _will_ go away.
Show threadlevampyreJul 2, 2023
@sarahzedig Do not underestimate right wing influencers and financiers. Musk has a tremendous impact on how people think they can treat each other and how confident they feel with forcing their "opinions" of hate upon us, violently if need be. The same is true for Trump. And the notion of "THE problem" is over-simplification anyways. There's problematic behaviour, always a conglomerate of multiple issues. Resistance is paramount.
Show threadNasadoJul 1, 2023
@sarahzedig I don't think Flash is comparable here, since it was itself a proprietary product with a for-profit corp backing it—RSS is an open standard, and embeds are more of a concept than anything