Notices by CouncilsInExile (revpancakes@hachyderm.io)

@evan @eb large capitalist organisations like facebook tend to dominate standards bodies since they have more time and resources to engage than hobbyists or small professional teams.

This means that their interests will dominate and their implementations will proliferate.

This logic is independent of the goodwill of individuals at fb.

We’ve seen this before e.g. web browser duopoly and DRM.

We need to avoid setting up that dynamic from the outset

@eb @evan this plus facebook etc should not be allowed anywhere near community standards bodies or discussions

So #threads is trialing federation, I think the best read on this is that it’s a move by Facebook to get ahead of anti-trust regulation and not that they directly see the fedi as a threat to coopt.

Nonetheless, that doesn’t stop EEE being the most likely outcome…

@aral fishhook politics