Corporate social media locks you in to their platforms, but projects like the Fediverse put you in control to build a more free, more private, and better moderated web. It’s exciting to see more people working to make independent social media even better.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/24/as-the-open-social-web-movement-grows-a-new-nonprofit-launches-to-expand-the-fediverse/
#fediverse #activitypub
@eff@mastodon.social
But is it “even better”?
In the 2010s on social media we saw the rise of cancel culture, where people were made pariahs for somethingorother, whether or not it was fair or even true.
In the 2020s with the growth of new social networking platforms, the new thing is cancelling functionality rather than people. By far (imho) the biggest cancellation is #Mastodon’s #search capability, rendering the very idea of finding content largely moot. Like pre-crime: it’s pre-censorship.
@eff@mastodon.social What is your position on @swf@socialwebfoundation.org - ?
@eff@mastodon.social So embrace, extend exstinguish?
@eff@mastodon.social well, we’re still working on the better moderated part
@eff@mastodon.social
“The Social Web Foundation (SWF) has some backing from Meta as well, alongside other major implementors of the ActivityPub protocol, including the social magazine app Flipboard, newsletter platform Ghost, Mastodon, and others. The Ford Foundation has also offered the organization a large grant to get the project started. In total, SWF is closing in on $1 million in financial support.”
This is how capitalists begin to buy the fediverse.
@eff@mastodon.social You write that like you don’t know what corporations have created this EEE as a Foundation.
