John Gruber Doesn’t Know What He’s Talking About
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A legendary blogger weighs in on reactions from a user-run social network towards a big corporation diving into the space.

A response to Daring Fireball’s recent thinkpieces about Fediverse admins wanting to block Meta’s new ActivityPub platform.

  • Nicol Wistreich@social.coop
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    1 year ago

    @qazwsxedcrfv000 @Kichae could it even be narrower than ‘corporate social media’? Ie maybe you run a tiny business and don’t have a problem with companies just because they’re companies. But you know monopolies are usually bad, so monopolies over the world’s public digital squares & discourse must be really bad.

    And so you ended up here, on Activity Pub, not completely convinced that an 8-million-monthly-active-user fediverse will survive federating with a 3-billion-daily-active-user monopoly.

    • Kichae@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      could it even be narrower than ‘corporate social media’?

      Yes and no. Yes, in that for many people it’s “Fuck Facebook in particular” because of just how absolutely invasive Meta has been, and how it has specifically turned brainwashing users into a business model.

      No in the sense that corporate social media will all inevitably try to do the same thing, sooner or later, because social media that’s actually usable for users’ interests just isn’t profitable. The enshitification process demands that we be manipulated into being more reactive, more hostile, and more open to the influence and exploitation.