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   kcarruthers (kcarruthers@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Dec-2024 09:13:41 JST kcarruthers

   • Cory Doctorow

   Good stuff exiting on the trash fire that is Twitter from @pluralistic: Social media needs (dumpster) fire exits

   https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/14/fire-exits/#graceful-failure-modes

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     Walt Bobrowski (walterbobrowski@flipboard.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 23:39:47 JST Walt Bobrowski

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     • Cory Doctorow

     @kcarruthers @pluralistic It presents a perfect analogy:

     "It's the "Fiddler on the Roof" problem: sure, the villagers of Anatevka get six kinds of shit kicked out of them by cossacks every 15 minutes, but if they leave the shtetl, they'll lose everything they have. Their wealth isn't material. Anatekvans are peasants with little more than the clothes on their back and a storehouse of banging musical numbers. The wealth of Anatevka is social, it's one another. The only thing worse than living in Anatevka is leaving Anatevka, because the collective action problem dictates that once you leave Anatevka, you lose everyone you love."

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     Alakest (alakest@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 00:57:31 JST Alakest

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     • Cory Doctorow
     • Walt Bobrowski
     • Daniel Marks

     @profdc9 @walterbobrowski @kcarruthers @pluralistic

     Oh. I just read the f*cking article.

     He lays it out pretty clearly.

     Imagine how the web would have developed if there's been *more* proprietary pissing matches at the outset.

     One downside of an approaching singularity is all the meantimes to enshitification of each successive technology are getting shortened along with any benefits.

     Certainly if avarice has any say in the matter.

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     Alakest (alakest@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 00:57:32 JST Alakest

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     • Cory Doctorow
     • Walt Bobrowski
     • Daniel Marks

     @profdc9 @walterbobrowski @kcarruthers @pluralistic Seem more than one stakeholder in the current state of affairs prefers people to stay in Anatevka, and, as much as they like to poach from each other, they, at the very least, agree they're not going to mention Mastodon.

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     Daniel Marks (profdc9@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 00:57:33 JST Daniel Marks

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     • Cory Doctorow
     • Walt Bobrowski

     @walterbobrowski @kcarruthers @pluralistic At least the fediverse, like the USA at the time of these great migrations, doesn't require that you bring anything with you but yourself. The hard part is getting here.

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     Alakest (alakest@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 00:57:33 JST Alakest

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     • Cory Doctorow
     • Walt Bobrowski
     • Daniel Marks

     @profdc9 @walterbobrowski @kcarruthers @pluralistic Just a reality check here and people reading this thread might have a take: is it just me, or none of the larger media concerns dignify the existence of Mastodon? At the end of TV programs, chirps at the end of audio saying "like us on {name of platform}", and where your eyes come to rest before leaving a web page, there's an array of badges like stickers on a NASCAR flying the logos of platforms. But rarely, if ever, is Mastodon featured.