Those of you caught up debating the technical minutiae of federating with Threads are missing the forest for the trees.
This is about one thing: Affording social capital to/normalising/legitimising Meta/Facebook/surveillance capitalism (and thereby delegitimising those who oppose them).
Hey, if the author of Mastodon thinks Meta/Facebook/Instagram/surveillance capitalism is socially acceptable there must be something wrong with you if you don’t.
@davep@aral@rriemann Agreed, I don’t see any additional access here. A slightly more depressing view is that an open system like the #fediverse cannot survive open long term because #ML / #’AI’ will scrape our data/private to oblivion. Invite only might be the only way forward #tragedy_of_the_commons
When I cleanup in my e-mail accounts by deleting and when relevant save a file or move the e-mails to local folder on my own disc only - I wonder how much energy I save per e-mail/byte when the data is not stored (also) on a server that is always on (with backups). #sustainability
Probably not much, and depending on how you look at it, it could use more.
As with most things, our usage is the real problem. When #tech (process change, etc) allows + #feedback to flow & accumulate in new places in the system, it won't be long until the #system adjusts to this new stock.
The 'paperless' promise never came with an #environmental impact study or similar studies for the #economy, behavioral consequences, etc.
An almost entirely overlooked result, across the board wherever you look in #society, is that these adjustments are functionally equivalent to removing checkpoints where flow is bottlenecked. In our market-based system, lowering costs to consumers means increasing said behavior-- at least indirectly, as a consequence of #corporate marketers' narratives of abundance & perpetual #growth.
Now sprinkle in some competition, and the race to the bottom begins: when you can't lower your price anymore (to attract biz away from comp) you offer these 'packages' of increasing use, all ending at the constraint of "unlimited". (>bandwidth magnifies use too)
It's a nice plot-twist in the standard narrative of the #Tragedy_of_the_Commons. Unfortunately, reasonable & moral actions such as yours are not the same ones that will resolve into necessary #sustainable change.