The "metaverse" is an abject financial failure. This comes as no surprise to anyone except the 7 or so people who ever populated it.

The management consultants and "gurus" who made a mint out of gullible corporate and conference organizers are going to need a new non-trend.😂

You don't need to censor anything if you can flood every screen with your own version of reality.

The opponent's views will then be seen as "fringe".

It's that simple, and it's happening in every imaginable media.

Having a blast converting all my Raspberry Pis into various headless federated nodes. Synapse installed in 3 clicks with dietPi, giving me my very own Matrix chat homeserver.

See:
https://dietpi.com/docs/software/social/#synapse
https://matrix.org
https://element.io

Reddit is excellent at covering up censorship. 50/50 of today's front page was censored, it's now a daily occurrence. See https://reddit.com/r/RedditMinusMods/. Everything else critical of the site was... well, censored.

RIP Aaron Swartz (who they erased from their company history, too).

You know that nerdy guy who checks the #opensource code of your favorite App™️ for malware and backdoors? Well, he's thinking you're the guy who checks the code for malware and backdoors.

Round and round we go.

Decentralization & liberation techs do not have to equate crypto-bros, abuse, or financial fraud. And no, an "Island Boys" NFT is not more precious than gold.

Time to move away from 'Web3'. I'll be focusing my energy on leveraging practical tech the old fashion way. You know, the kind where you have to build and sell actual products before you exit the company.

Crazy, I know!

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At 44yo, I'm extremely conflicted by the fact we're living in a dystopian future but 99% of the population are not just happy, they are willing to camp overnight to be "the first" to buy a self-imposed surveillance device.

Learn to fight these things. Distribute the tools.