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People shocked as venture capital backed company with good product/service that was operated unsustainably and at a loss to draw in users enshittifies as backers scramble for return on investment.
“I’m shocked”, says one user of the product/service. “I know this exact thing has happened every other time without fail, but I thought this time would be different.”
> ngi zero app to write
.. to escape big tech 🥳
Thanks @EUCommission @EC_NGI and @nlnet for your support of open ecosystems, open standards and open source software. And of course for your help in establishing alternative social networking environments that are less corrosive to the fabric of global society. Fediverse on the rise, let's follow the path to a peopleverse that serves.. well, people.
You just know you're doing something right when #Meta 's data protection officer talks about your ‘power’ and how she wants the #EU to ban you from doing your work.🤡
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Othering. Fascists do it. To create distance between groups of people. To make us not see each other anymore. This alienation lends them power.
At social coding commons Sirius posted his article "Do we need new #SocialMedia?" (in German)
https://bildung.hypotheses.org/6230
It occurred to me we must avoid othering at all levels. To increase 'social bandwidth'.
And that starts with avoiding the word "User".
We aren't users! And advertisement giants shouldn't administer global society!
Zur Aktualität eines Internet-Memes Im Juni 2013 schreibt ein Satz deutsche Internetgeschichte. Auf einer Pressekonferenz verkündet Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel folgenschwer: „Das Internet ist für uns alle Neuland” (Nagel 2013). Vor allem für Internet-affine Menschen deutete...
Not sure what Americans need to do at this moment, but it probably needs to be soon.
In response to the recent flood of Catholic imagery on the #fediverse, I present my one true deity: the Flying Spaghetti Monster. R'Amen.
@EUCommission that image I created long ago has gained new relevance..