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   Robert Kingett (weirdwriter@caneandable.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Oct-2025 09:49:49 JST Robert Kingett

   • Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

   Was reading one of my favorite articles again and then discovered, again, that @rysiek wrote it! I'm the worst at remembering which Fedi people wrote my favorite thing, so it's always a happy surprise when I look them up and then it all clicks again! Ah yes, I remember this Fedi handle wrote this thing, but enjoy anyway! https://rys.io/en/177.html #Fediverse #Mastodon

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     Michael Vilain (mvilain@sfba.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Oct-2025 09:49:46 JST Michael Vilain

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     • Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
     • lj·rk

     @ljrk @WeirdWriter @rysiek Kinda dated, but still relevant.

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Oct-2025 09:49:46 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
     • Michael Vilain
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     @mvilain @ljrk @WeirdWriter @rysiek Fediverse: I'm eating a torus.
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     lj·rk (ljrk@todon.eu)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Oct-2025 09:49:48 JST lj·rk

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     • Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

     @WeirdWriter @rysiek

     These two paragraphs struck me in particular:

     > That’s in stark contrast to, say, Google+, which despite corporate backing, incomparably larger budget, and being pushed down people’s throats through forced integration with YouTube, survived mere seven years, nine months, and a week.

     Because unfortunately Google probably doesn't see that as a problem. Or even as the Fedi winning. For them, longetivity doesn't matter, but peak user count.

     > And once it shut down, it shut down. A social network of millions just blipped out of existence one day. All those moments – lost in time, like tears in rain.

     This, too, for them is a good thing. No-one else can profit from "their" data.

     This just makes it so crystal clear how the big one's interests aren't aligned with ours. Google+ wasn't really failing in their book, it had served its purpose and then ceased to do so. To us, this is loss. To Google this is just business.

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     Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Oct-2025 10:42:20 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

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     @lanodan @WeirdWriter @mvilain @ljrk I'm eating a well, actually. :blobcatpeek:

     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: likes this.