Internet platforms have reached end-stage enshittification, where they claw back the goodies they once used to lure in end-users and business customers, trying to walk a tightrope in which there's just enough value left to keep you locked in, but no more. It's ugly out there.
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Fucking Christ the @protocol is the most obtuse crock of shit I've ever looked at. It is complex solely for the sake of being complex and still suffers from all of the same problems as Mastodon.
Your server goes down? Sorry, all of your followers are lost. Account portability is no better than Mastodon. 'DIDs' serve literally no purpose. And none of the API code that Bluesky uses in their own app validates ANY of the crypto they're doing on the server. NONE OF IT.
I think they will look more at the #dotcons smelling #bluesky than the wildflower smelling #ActivityPub as culture pushes over tech, and we are working in a broken culture. Not saying the #openweb is bad, just it's a hard sell to head down #deathcult worshippers, this is why we have #bluesky they are selling, it's not tech.
"Google is still the web’s biggest and most influential company. But across the publishing industry, it’s no longer seen as a partner. AMP ultimately neither saved nor killed the open web. But it did kill Google’s good name — one not-that-fast webpage at a time."
The #OpenWeb is the internet where information and content is accessible to all, regardless of their location, device or network, and can be shared, linked, and re-used without restrictions or barriers imposed by proprietary platforms, walled gardens, or monopolistic practices. It is based on #4opens and aims to provide a more inclusive, equitable, and participatory world.
The #OpenWeb is often contrasted with the #closedweb or “walled garden web”, where content and data are locked behind proprietary platforms, controlled by corporations or governments, and subject to limitations, restrictions, and surveillance. The #dotcons
In tech the #geekproblem has pushed emancipation into darkness. The #encryptionists have dominated alt-tech and the #dotcons of the #mainstreaming path, both are born of this world view and the socialisation that keeps it from sight.
We typically found little to be confusing about your hashtags, once you explained them. For example, we didn't understand what you meant by #stupidIndividualism until you linked it to #postModern notions of individualism.
We absolutely love your #dotCons tag to describe the likes of the #CAGEMAFIA (eg. Cloudflare-Amazon-Google-TwitterBuyer-Microsoft-Apple-Fakebook-IBM-Akamai cabal).
We will continue to use that hashtag until the threat of #technoFeudalism is over.
Just a NOTE, our media is broken, our #dotcons social media is broken, our #DIY media is broken. It's pastime to bring back our own media #indymediaback
The Decade of Dishonest Technology’ I call this the #dotcons as in the con after the dot-com bust. The time when our #fahernistas sold out the #openweb to capitalism... was a wasted ten years
The #Fediverse is a collection of decentralized social networking platforms that use #ActivityPub, allowing people to communicate and share content across different networks. These platforms are designed to be community-driven and to prioritize native #openweb culture, which is inherently unfriendly to capitalism.
These new protocols need to say more about their alignment with capitalism, it is important for developers and marketers to be transparent about their values and business models so that people can make informed decisions about the technologies they use.
We need to make a clear step away from the #dotcons that have wasted our society for the last 20 years.
Projects are all based on ideology- #BlueSkySocial is capitalism, monetization is a core priority, just like twitter they are leaving it out at the start as the usual #dotcons bait and switch.
The tech might be different, but the world view is #nothingnew in a bad way.
The #Fediverse is built on a different world-view which is why it is important, the tech in both cases is secondary.
"All code is ideology solidified into action – most contemporary code is capitalism"
Towards the end of December 2019 I did a whole thread on Twitter, essentially reviewing the decade as ‘The Decade of Dishonest Technology’. It didn't start with that decade, and it hasn't stopped since, but it was the decade that got bought, and then sold everything about us under false pretenses, whether for state or corporate purposes.
It was the decade of technology that wasn't only biased, but straight up lied to us. Lies that most of us didn't really care about, as long as they didn't hit our own wallet.
Strap in, I am reviewing and updating the whole thread for the Mastodon Age.
@sindarina I call this the #dotcons as in the con after the dot-com bust. The time when our #fahernistas sold out the #openweb to capitalism... was a wasted ten years
Us, continuing to go down the path of centralization round a brand (#mastodon) is a disaster for the #Fediverse and the danger of the irrelevance of Mastodon itself as it then has no clear advantage over #dotcons masked #bluesky and #Nostr - who can play the tech is better card.
@raucao if you wonder what the "problem" is? It's that for the last 40 years the domanet ideology has been neo-liberalism which has proven to be a #deathcult, look at #XR movement for factual information on this.
All the #dotcons are made as an image of this ideology and its also imbedded in different ways in all #FOSS projects unless people knowingly think in different non #mainstreaming ways.
Quite enjoying the vibe at #blueskysocial, but also having a damn hard time with going back to so few characters to post with. Six months on Mastodon has really got me obsessed with the freedom to blog in a post. And editing! You can't edit your posts on bluesky, argh!
@mikestevens projects are all based on ideology- #BlueSkySocial is capitalism, monetisation is a core priority, just like twitter they are leaving it out at the start as the usual #dotcons bait and switch.
The tech might be different, but the world view is #nothingnew
The #Fediverse is built on a different world-view which is why it is important, the tech in both cases is secondary.
"All code is ideology solidified into action – most contemporary code is capitalism"