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   Erica "digifox" Kovac 🌐⚛️⚡ (digifox@tech.lgbt)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Jun-2023 09:12:14 JST Erica "digifox" Kovac 🌐⚛️⚡

   It's childish contrarianism to want to outright reject Meta adopting activitypub.

   There are plenty of reasons to be concerned about what this means and how to handle it but if you want this technology to matter in the slightest, it needs widespread adoption. Otherwise it's just a toy for the terminally online, technological masturbation, software solipsism.

   Maybe you want the tech you use to be a toy forever, but I don't. I want these things to become standard, boring, in the background. You don't get there by rejecting every attempt at commercialization.

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     Toxic Darkest Sinner (galena@paws.moe)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Jun-2023 09:12:13 JST Toxic Darkest Sinner

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     @digifox Yeah but with this, the actually good thing that people use to escape from their evil megacorp overlords just becomes yet another thing the evil megacorps are using to control and oppress them. You are literally arguing that people who want to be free should not be allowed to be free because the majority either do not want to, or do not have the means to, be free. The correct solution is the exact opposite - to root out the evil megacorps entirely and free the masses, not to let the evil megacorps invest every corner they have not already seized control over.
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     Erica "digifox" Kovac 🌐⚛️⚡ (digifox@tech.lgbt)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Jun-2023 09:12:14 JST Erica "digifox" Kovac 🌐⚛️⚡

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     The world where the tech-literate use one set of technologies and the "unwashed masses" use whatever mass-produced proprietary thing is being shipped by megacorps breeds elitism and contempt.