Miloš Jovanović
All this conversation about #Meta on #Fedi feels like the worst parts of geek culture. So technical, without understanding context or what strikes can actually do. My thoughts:
Meta will make a great app for Fedi because it has more money to throw at the task. People will start using that because it's better. It will have QTs and an algorithm. People they want to follow will be there.
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Miloš Jovanović
Meta will data collect not just public content, but also statistics like how long your eyes stay on certain text. What you hover over, what you toot and erase, what you search for. None of this is available to them now.
Regular people won't care because they have busy lives and just want something that works. Geeks won't care because we can use alternative clients (for now). After a few years, #meta's #p92 will introduce features unavailable on alternative clients.
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Miloš Jovanović
People will be divided between interoperability with #Meta and alternative clients. They will like the no ads stuff on #Masto, but at first the ads on #P92 will be promoted posts and will actually be useful. It will be reliable. Small servers on #Mastodon will collapse because of rapid growth, difficulty in moderation, attacks by right-wing trolls. People will want reliability and move to the meta thing, because it's just easier.
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Miloš Jovanović
Ultimately, Meta would kill what Mastodon has become, as everyone will mostly be using their app. They will have saved their business empire from the threat of #communization.
This is why they are doing this. It's a business move, and if you think that you somehow outsmart 500 billion $ company you're deeply misguided. In capitalist societies, smarter people are not more successful at doing what they want to do, richer people are.
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Miloš Jovanović
A #strike / #FediPact doesn't let them do this. It prevents #Meta from entering the existing conversation with interesting content and dynamic developments. It makes it harder and more expensive for them to develop their own ActivityPub software, makes #EEE slightly more expensive.
Whoever thinks that we have somehow "won" by having them adopt #ActivityPub is deeply ignoring reality and history. We have opposing interests. They are capitalists, we are a commons. They want to eat us.
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Miloš Jovanović
So the purpose of the #fedipact virtual picket is to stake a claim and build a common consciousness. It could grow - we could build a cross-#fediverse infrastructure to negotiate and make collective decisions. We could develop a standard for all those who want to join - a viral thing. @dk
wrote of this a long while ago.
The point of the #fediblockMeta is not to stop them, it ultimately cannot do that. The point of it is to realize what we can do together.
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Miloš Jovanović
@gubi and, tellingly, not in the field of user-facing systems until it was EEE’d by Google into android & chromeOS.
Carlo Gubitosa :nonviolenza:
@loshmi as a matter of fact, Linux outsmarted billionaire corporation in the field of server operating systems, and nothing prevents mastodon to do the same if people can get rid on the TINA syndrome and top thinking that "There Is No Alternative" to the rule of rich and powerful.
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