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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mamot.fr/users/pluralistic/statuses/113861652969100422">Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 01:35:47 JST</a><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" title="pluralistic@mamot.fr"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/1478-48-20250110225240.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Cory Doctorow" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Cory Doctorow</a><div><a href="https://mastodon.social/@NerdRelaxo/113861638663328499" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a><ul><li></ul></div></section><article><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/@NerdRelaxo">@NerdRelaxo</a> Did you read the rest of the thread? Because there's another 811 words that answer this question in excruciating detail.</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4410005#notice-8629082">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-01-21T01:35:47+09:00" title="Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 01:35:47 JST">about 3 days ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113861652969100422" rel="external" title="Sent from mamot.fr via ActivityPub">mamot.fr</a></span></span><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113861652969100422">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3968329">For some Mastodon users, Free Our Feeds is dead on arrival – why bother trying to make a for-profit project safer for its users when Mastodon is a perfectly good nonprofit alternative? Why waste millions developing a standalone Bluesky server rather than spending that money improving things in the Fediverse.I believe strongly in improving the Fediverse, and I believe in adding the long-overdue federation to Bluesky. That's because my goal isn't the success of the Fediverse – it's the defeat of enshtitification. My answer to "why spend money fixing Bluesky?" is "why leave 20 million people at risk of enshittification when we could not only make them safe, but also create the toolchain to allow many, many organizations to operate a whole federation of Bluesky servers?" If you care about a better internet – and not just the Fediverse – then you should share this goal, too.</a></label><br><a href="https://static.mamot.fr/media_attachments/files/113/861/647/671/381/958/original/41031134e7966d5a.png" rel="external">https://static.mamot.fr/media_attachments/files/113/861/647/671/381/958/original/41031134e7966d5a.png</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3968330">Many of the Fediverse's servers are operated by for-profit entities, after all. One of the Fediverse's largest servers (Threads) is owned by Meta. Threads users who feel the bite of Zuckerberg's decision to encourage homophobic, xenophobic and transphobic hate speech will find it easy to escape from Threads: they can set up on any Fediverse server that is federated with Threads and they'll be able to maintain their connections with everyone who stays behind.The existence of for-profit servers in the Fediverse does not ruin the Fediverse (though I wouldn't personally use one of them). The fact that multiple neo-Nazi groups run their own Mastodon servers does not ruin the Fediverse (though I certainly won't use their servers). Not even the fact that Donald Trump's Truth Social is a Mastodon server does anything to ruin the Fediverse (not using that one, either).</a></label><br><a href="https://static.mamot.fr/media_attachments/files/113/861/649/173/569/492/original/5603437e1a6bbb81.png" rel="external">https://static.mamot.fr/media_attachments/files/113/861/649/173/569/492/original/5603437e1a6bbb81.png</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3968331">This is the strength of federated, federatable social media – it disciplines enshittifiers by lowering switching costs, and if enshittifiers persist, it makes it easy for users to escape unshitted, because they don't have to solve the collective action problem. Any user can go to any server at any time and stay in touch with everyone else.Mastodon was born free: free code, with free federation as a priority. Bluesky was not: it was born within a for-profit public benefit corporation whose charter offers some defenses against enshittification, but lacks the most decisive one: the federation that would let users escape should escape become necessary.The fact that Mastodon was born free is quite unusual in the annals of the fight for a free internet. Most of the internet was born proprietary and had freedom foisted upon it. Unix was born within Bell Labs, property of the convicted monopolist AT&amp;T. The GNU/Linux project set it free.</a></label><br><a href="https://static.mamot.fr/media_attachments/files/113/861/650/724/542/262/original/655b26ac6f2f628a.png" rel="external">https://static.mamot.fr/media_attachments/files/113/861/650/724/542/262/original/655b26ac6f2f628a.png</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3968332">SMB was born proprietary within corporate walls of Microsoft, another corporate monopolist. SAMBA set it free.The Office file formats were also born proprietary within Microsoft's walled garden: they were set free by hacker-activists who fought through a thick bureaucratic morass and Microsoft fuckery (including literally refusing to allow chairs to be set for advocates for Open Document Format) to give us formats that underlie everything from LibreOffice to Google Docs, Office365 to your web browser.There is nothing unusual, in other words, about hacking freedom into something that is proprietary or just insufficiently free. That's totally normal. It's how we got almost everything great about computers.Mastodon's progenitors should be praised for ensuring their creation was born free – but the fact that Bluesky isn't free enough is no reason to turn our back on it. Our response to anything that locks in the people we care about must be to shatter those locks, not abandon the people bound by the locks because they didn't heed to our warnings.</a></label><br><a href="https://static.mamot.fr/media_attachments/files/113/861/652/232/492/785/original/dbdfa40ffc94a864.png" rel="external">https://static.mamot.fr/media_attachments/files/113/861/652/232/492/785/original/dbdfa40ffc94a864.png</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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@NerdRelaxo Did you read the rest of the thread? Because there's another 811 words that answer this question in excruciating detail.
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