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Clayton Dewey (clayton@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 05:07:26 JST Clayton Dewey
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- Meredith Whittaker
I am pumping my first so hard at this response from @signalapp president @Mer__edith to the claim that people just prefer Big Tech.
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https://www.wired.com/story/meredith-whittaker-signal/
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  Under Meredith Whittaker, Signal Is Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong
  
  from Andy Greenberg
  
  On its 10th anniversary, Signal’s president wants to remind you that the world’s most secure communications platform is a nonprofit. It’s free. It doesn’t track you or serve you ads. It pays its engineers very well. And it’s a go-to app for hundreds of millions of people.
2. That's a lovely vision. I guess basically no one but Signal has been actually making this work, though. So far the for-profit model just keeps winning with this one exception. Keeps winning what? Keeps winning users. So a monopolistic hegemony is a really good way to do that. But it does not win hearts and minds. And we have now fully turned in terms of public sentiment toward Big Tech. People have to use it because you can't participate in society without it, but that's not winning users. That's coercion. We're talking about lock-in, where other options have been foreclosed by state abandonment or monopoly. The demand for an alternative has never been stronger.
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