Bye bye old fedi 👋 thx for all the Free Beer!
With #Facebook plans to test decentralized waters after #Cloudflare and others, we'll see resilience of #Fediverse to remain of-the-people.
Does it matter if they'll be #ActivityPub-based or not? Stuff depends on levels of investment and products launched.
Was thinking #BigTech would only add AP endpoints a bit naive?
Will slick open core products, sdk's, quality semi-open specs and docs, launch the #CorpoVerse?
Keep the #FOSS free beer coming 😞
@smallcircles I'm not worried 🙂
@atomicpoet I wouldn't say I am worried. This was bound to happen one day.
But I am disappointed that in all the years before the grassroots #FOSS movement wasn't able to create stronger foundations that would place them in a better position than they are now.
It is a fact of life, I know. #FreeSoftware has a big sustainability issue that is very hard to tackle.
If #Fediverse is taken over by the corporate world, FOSS projects are left to add to that or explore new areas to be captured later.
I agree, I think the issue is we are mostly individuals or in small groups, so there is a huge decentralised entity behind free software, it is not seen has huge. I also find a lot of apathy, especially in Devon / Cornwall UK too.
LibrePlanet is next week, an opportunity to get together with other free software advocates and discuss, learn and communicae.
We can't let corporate take over the fediverse, to counter that we just do what we are doing, create content, have conversations and make it clear we have a different culture, we feel safe to discuss what is going on with the #Trans community and show solidarity with them.
Over time we will be stronger.
Main stream social media has it's influencers, we don't have that here, but we do have, for example the science community posting interesting content, or sharing news stories. I would rather read about some complex new discovery than be expected to try and keep up with the antics of some celebrity of influencer who with social media will be no one. A lot of kids want to be influencers, as they see it as easy money, the reality is the opposite, if the social media bubble bursts, then that whole ecosystem could burst with it.
