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I’ve been trying to find a way to express my view of the people who took over the outreach of the #Fediverse, and in doing so shape the #openweb reboot we helped co-create.
DRAFT: Naive, controlling, and self-interested. They’ve left a mess that those they pushed aside will now have to compost. How we ended up here is a question worth talking about more.
Since they have $100M in the bank, 3 is probably a way off. AFACT, they are currently doing both 1 and 2 in parallel; if you look at their protocol engineers, I do believe they are really all in on 1, but much of the rest of the company is taking every opportunity to act in a decentralized manner and going in the opposite direction.
@mastodonmigration @hamishcampbell @_elena I won't argue with this. Having two incompatible stacks hurts the entire ecosystem. When developers and decisionmakers see that, it makes them want to sit back and wait to see what comes out on top.
I think our best mitigation for that right now is reassurance that investing time, energy and money into ActivityPub will not be a waste.
💯 Slow and steady wins the race. It is just frustrating that people are so easily distracted by bright shiny objects.
I’ve been trying to find a way to express my view of the people who took over the outreach of the #Fediverse, and in doing so shape the #openweb reboot we helped co-create.
DRAFT: Naive, controlling, and self-interested. They’ve left a mess that those they pushed aside will now have to compost. How we ended up here is a question worth talking about more.
Why do we keep bringing this up?
If we want a better web, we have to stop pretending this is just about “bad tech companies doing bad things.” Of course, they are-that’s what capitalist incentives produce. The real question is: what are we doing differently? That means accepting some uncomfortable truths. The better path will be less convenient, at least at first. We will have to socially support things that used to look free on the #dotcons. Because the cost we didn’t want to face is simple: the #openweb was always […]
@hamishcampbell @_elena @laurenshof Entirely agree.
There are pockets of great connectivity out there but face to face meaningful dialogue (as opposed to interleaving monologues with phone held tight in hand the whole while) but few and far between.
Rob Ricci
Evan Prodromou
Mastodon Migration
#OMN (Open Media Network)
Neil Moffatt