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   silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 02:29:10 JST silverwizard

   • Cory Doctorow

   People brigading @pluralistic because he supports a thing they don't like.

   I get why people proping up bluesky sucks, and why people are mad.

   But fucking. Ok. If there's anyone who has earned benefit of the fucking doubt it's Cory Fucking Doctorow. And if you believe he made a bad call after reading his piece on it, I get it, but imagine dismissing him this hard for one bad take. Damn. Fucking bonkers.

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 02:29:21 JST silverwizard

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     Puritinism sucks, even if you're for my kind of purity. Damn.
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 03:54:50 JST silverwizard

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     A bunch of richos have decided that Bluesky is special and cool because there's no billionaires involved, and they're working on building apps on top of AT Protocol - pluralistic.net/2025/01/14/con… freeourfeeds.com/

     Basically the idea is that if you make a bunch of frontends, then bluesky will be billionaire proof. In theory, they could then work with AT Protocol alternate relays, assuming that becomes feasible I guess? Doctorow is like "yeah, this is probably good" and now there's people under every Doctorow post being like "Yeah but he thinks Free Our Feeds is smart so he's bad"

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     hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 03:54:51 JST hypolite

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     @silverwizard What did I miss?
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 04:00:25 JST silverwizard

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     • hypolite
     @hypolite it's an insult for "people who are rich". Mostly celebrities.
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     hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 04:00:27 JST hypolite

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     @silverwizard What do you mean by "richos" ?
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 04:11:55 JST silverwizard

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     • hypolite

     @hypolite I mean - the war between millionaires and billionaires is a pretty complicated thing going on.

     I'm in a situation where I'm going to become a millionaire at some point by dint of birth, and it's weird, I feel a lot of guilt about it. And despite this - I don't feel any kinship with the idea of a billionaire. Billionaires are these weird *monsters* - they don't feel like people anymore, they're just these warps in reality that reshape our fucking world to their (somehow always Nazi) whims.

     But yeah - like - Mark Ruffalo does not have any sort of world shaping money - but has enough to try to make a new social media company - it makes sense - but like - yeah - Mark Ruffalo probably shouldn't be the place we put our trust in our digital future.

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     hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 04:11:56 JST hypolite

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     @silverwizard Yeah, "rich people against billionaires" doesn't sound as good as they'd like.
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 04:12:26 JST silverwizard

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     @hypolite I dunno - social alignment is fucking hard and I don't know what it is.
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     hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 04:27:10 JST hypolite

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     @silverwizard I wasn't particularly unsympathetic to George Soros, but seeing what other billionaires have done with their wealth in the past 5 years, he's earned my respect for becoming a relative outlier even though he hasn't changed course that I know of.
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 04:27:21 JST silverwizard

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     @hypolite Yeah - Soros and Buffet have successfully been less shit than so many people which is ... clearing a very low bar, and often barely clearing it, but at least they did!