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   Staid Winnow (staidwinnow@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Aug-2023 02:11:18 JST Staid Winnow

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   • Esther, an actual photographer
   • AnarchoNinaWrites

   @esther @AnarchoNinaWrites

   It'll take huge efforts to persuade a very large number of people who seem happy with what the techno-fascists offer.

   FOSS alone won't cut it, because the same techno-fascists end up funding, and eventually owning the reins.

   Then making cost-of-entry prohibitive.

   We can have niche platforms (like Mastodon) where once critical mass is reached (25M users), it will sustain itself.

   Persuading a center-right population is a tough ask. That's where we need success.

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     Esther, an actual photographer (esther@strangeobject.space)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Aug-2023 02:11:19 JST Esther, an actual photographer

     • AnarchoNinaWrites

     “Collectively, we need to transform life online from a culture of rote consumption into a culture of person-to-person information distribution.

     […]

     Creating this type of culture shift in the online information economy will not be easy, but we already have evidence it can work. The free and open internet of the 90’s that oldheads still wistfully recall was built like this, and if they did it on dial up modems, surely we can get there in our advanced online culture as well.”

     Much appreciated and realistically hopeful post from @AnarchoNinaWrites on the future of the web that we can and need to shape.

     https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2023/08/22/mini-theory-blog-escaping-the-garden-walls/

     AnthonyJK-Admin repeated this.