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   bhaugen (bhaugen@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 02-Sep-2022 05:39:51 JST bhaugen

   @bob
   What are the strengths of the fediverse that cannot be copied by capitalist projects financed by advertising and surveillance?

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     smallcircles (Humane Tech Now) (humanetech@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Sep-2022 05:43:00 JST smallcircles (Humane Tech Now)

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     @bhaugen @bob

     Though I am not following it at all, I have the feeling that the mere name-dropping of a 'big vision' by the Zuck has unleashed a frantic activity in the market where many companies are rushing in to be early adopters and stake their claim shoud there be any real uptake in the future.

     I've seen quite a few corporations spending big on Metaverse ads for instance, where they announce techz they are working on.

     Of course it may all just fail and be vapourware.

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     smallcircles (Humane Tech Now) (humanetech@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Sep-2022 05:46:39 JST smallcircles (Humane Tech Now)

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     @bhaugen @bob

     But I think that FB/Meta's strategy was rather smarter than most people give it credit.

     This is just a hunch of mine, but I think that FB didn't have this crystalised vision of where they wanted to go with Metaverse.

     But by hyping the buzzword they primed the market, and now they can develop and meanwhile look around what others are doing. Upcoming players they can buy-out, acquire them. They don't do innovation themselves. The Big Techz aren't all that innovative anymore.

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     Tagomago (tagomago@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Sep-2022 16:13:09 JST Tagomago

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     @bhaugen @bob Not being a capitalist project financed by advertising and surveillance.

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     dachary (dachary@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 03-Sep-2022 18:50:06 JST dachary

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     @bhaugen @bob

     > What are the strengths of the fediverse that cannot be copied by capitalist projects financed by advertising and surveillance?

     * independence / no strings attached / sovereignty
     * federation of online services

     Being federated is a property of online services that does not agree with either proprietary software or user lock-in.

     Reason why no silicon valley startups or tech giants are working on federated service. It is a post-growth thing, no good for wanabee unicorns ?