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   Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 02:56:46 JST Cory Doctorow

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   • Ernie Smith
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   @mastodonmigration @ernie Nope. If there's something popular and closed, it has ever and always and always will be a failure to scold people for liking the things they like. The only success is to make free/open things compatible with them.

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     Mastodon Migration (mastodonmigration@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 02:56:47 JST Mastodon Migration

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     @ernie @pluralistic

     Hear you. Again thanks for the comment.

     The reason this is so frustrating is that it trades on principles of free and open systems to distract us from actually investing our efforts in building out truly free and open public systems.

     ActivityPub may not be perfect, but it works, and we are wasting our time messing around with a another VC funded corporate platform designed to suck in progressives when we should be building a robust public social media alternative.

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     Mastodon Migration (mastodonmigration@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 02:56:49 JST Mastodon Migration

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     @ernie @pluralistic

     OK, good point. How about "honeytrap"?

     Sorry, edited, was not aware of the history of the term.

     Thank you.

     Edit: Grrrr... that doesn't seem much better. Just going with 'trap'.

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     Ernie Smith (ernie@writing.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 02:56:49 JST Ernie Smith

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     @mastodonmigration @pluralistic Thanks. I get you’re passionate about this, and I don’t want to come off as dismissing your point (even if I have a less skeptical POV personally), but that was an important callout.

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     Mastodon Migration (mastodonmigration@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 02:56:52 JST Mastodon Migration

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     @ernie

     Reaction is that it is a trap intended to suck money and attention away from truly open public social media in favor of another VC funded proprietary system. There seem to be a lot of well intentioned folks (WTF @pluralistic !) who have been suckered into this boondoggle.

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     Ernie Smith (ernie@writing.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 02:56:52 JST Ernie Smith

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     @mastodonmigration @pluralistic Whatever your point of view on this, there has to be a better term you could use to make that point. It carries some pretty charged associations.

     https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/05/11/527459106/tar-baby-a-folktale-about-food-rights-rooted-in-the-inequalities-of-slavery

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     Ernie Smith (ernie@writing.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 02:56:54 JST Ernie Smith

     Thoughts on this? Based on the fact that two Mozilla Foundation folks are in the mix of advisors, I imagine it’s probably tied to them.

     Kind of weird we didn’t see this type of org being built for the fediverse.

     https://freeourfeeds.com/