Notices by wb x64 (wilbr@glitch.social), page 2

@ayo @kev @pixelfed wonder if they'll get *less* lawsuit happy when they have a product that looks very similar to Pixelfed and they've patented a few core features of a federated social network to use as bludgeons against us.

Get your prior art in now, folks

@AnarchoNinaWrites absolutely, the history of America is essentially smugglers, slavers, capitalists, religious extremists, and criminals or sociopaths coming over here to try and make it rich (or at least avoid interacting with the society they left, or upon court order and threat of death for their crimes) so you've got a continent full of the worst misfits and guess what they go off and kill whoever they want, causing major problems for everyone else (and genocide)

@AnarchoNinaWrites for all the hand wringing about how libertarians just want to be minor feudal lords profiting off indentured servitude like The Governor from Walking Dead, that's basically how America was in some pockets especially toward the beginning

@freakazoid @vantablack the idea that someone would get as large as the big instances without asking for donations and mod help, just letting things schlep along until some undetermined payday or offramp, sends a shiver up my spine.

Then again my own server is just schlepping along, it just also doesn't allow signups...

@mjgardner @pyne @ipg and this is why we'll be ready to defederate any big corporate instances / fork and resist any big protocol changes when they come to Fediverse.

@javerous @mikemathia @nicolasf also as we've seen a massive timesaving tool doesn't really mean that the same or less work gets done, or that tons of people are without jobs for decades, more like people get retrained to make companies even more money with the same labor (now plus tools) while getting paid less and having less security. (A knitter, versus a textile factory worker.)

So that's the real concern: devaluing.