Big tech has no problem with decentra, the one doing client monetization are on that fight. Some of them are big tech but that does not make the whole of bt accomplice of the fight.
Like it's awful, people died, that does suck and it is a tragedy... but at the same token, consequences of your actions. If you're dumb enough to get on an unregulated submersible controlled by an old, off brand Xbox controller and dive to more than double it's rated depth.... don't be surprised when things go wrong and you die.
whoa whoa whoa... I'mma let you finish, but the controller is a fine device, and logitech has some pretty good stuff. The mindboggling thing is that they used it for A SUB.
I mean I don't think good riddance needs to be said anyway, all that needs to be said is dude was an idiot and got himself and others killed because of it. Being rich doesn't innoculate you from being stupid.
Also, everybody is talking and forming opinions on the topic, while it’s just really just a “why would I care” type of news? When hundreds of refugees drown on a sinking ship, it’s a sidenote in a daily news feed, so it’s annoying when the media then blows up this “news” about rich people nobody heard of before.
A bunch of rich people sank to the bottom of the ocean because of arrogance and ignored safety concerns, while trying to see a ship that was full of rich people that sank to the bottom of the ocean because of arrogance and ignored safety concerns.
I'm receptive to the arguments that the Fediverse should be open even to Meta, but we've seen this play out too many times before - you simply can't trust a big company like Meta not to try to take over + destroy the Fediverse, when there are tremendous financial incentives to their doing so and no meaningful negative consequences if they do.
The fediverse is open to Meta. They're welcome to do what they want. I will simply choose to not federate with and actively block every iota of content or instances they create or touch. Zuck is an ugly cancer on the internet.
Which ultimately didn't work for Microsoft, at least not anywhere near the extent that people feared.
It's good to be wary and watchful, but let's also not become paranoid chicken-littles. Sometimes it's the open standards that end up "embracing" the closed shops and forcing them at least somewhat open.
The main thing people feared would be "embraced, extended, and extinguished" back in the day was open web standards. That's what the big anti-trust suit was about, Microsoft was forcing Internet Explorer on users and giving it proprietary standards. Nowadays Internet Explorer is fully dead and Edge is Chromium-based.
People also feared that Microsoft was going to try to destroy the GPL and other copyleft licenses somehow. Now Microsoft releases many things under copyleft licenses, Dot Net's runtime is MIT-licensed, and Microsoft runs GitHub, one of the largest repositories of open source software there is (a lot of people freaked out when that happened but I've yet to hear of them "extinguishing" anything).
Microsoft is far from the most open software company but it's much more open than it was back in the day.
It didn't work because thousands of people put in lots of work to make sure it wouldn't work. The fear was justified, we just managed to band together and stop that.
It's like with Y2K or the ozone layer issues. It's not that they weren't important, it's that many many people put in the work to fix them before they got a point where we were fucked.
Meta the company started saying they were going to build a twitter replacement on the fediverse and some instances made a pact to block them to protect their users from Metas invasive privacy violations.
I see it as the Paradox of Tolerance (with proprietary walled-garden makers standing in for the nazis): in order to have a free and open Fediverse, we must not tolerate those who would close it up.
@riktor@webghost0101@tubbadu Its better if they don't lol because then even Mastodon will have trust issues because zuck can't stop sniffing people's data.
That is true. Albeit attending a meeting doesn't necessarily mean you're gonna be selling your soul to Meta. Hopefully, those that do decide to attend stand up for the communities that are being built in the Fediverse.
I mean, if i was an admin i would rationalize that its in your interest to listen to the enemy if they might reveal their evil plan. Even if you have to sign a contract that you can publicly talk about it. (Can always confine to a distant acquittance that is prone to start rumours)
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