Notices by Bob Mottram :debian: (bob@epicyon.libreserver.org), page 2

A note for #ActivityPub spec people: please don't make the protocol massively more complex than it already is, because that leads back to centralisation if only one or two organisations can implement it. Similar to the problem of browsers being so complex that only orgs with massive budgets can maintain them.

@aral Getting blocked by fosstodon doesn't make sense to me, although it is the case that a lot of foss people have one foot in the world of BigTech and so may feel obligated to defend unethical business practices. Get them by the salary, and hearts and minds soon follow.

I confess to using this terminology in the past, but people in general are not “voiceless”. They have ideas and opinions. It's just that officialdom refuses to listen. “Voiceless” is a kind of punching down perspective.

The ecosystem is moving.

Away from centralized silos.

There is no inevitable technological future, and the inevitability framing is an authoritarian tactic to try to persuade people that alternatives don't exist or are not viable.

There is only the technology future that we choose to build. What we decide to accept or not.

Newen Afrobeat feat. Seun Kuti & Cheick Tidiane Seck - Opposite People https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFSRCG4DrmI #NowPlaying

Newen Afrobeat & Seun Kuti - Zombie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCZZWu9WR5s #NowPlaying