If celebrities ever migrate to the Fediverse, I hope they all coalesce onto one instance where they're offered white glove treatment.
And then I can block that instance, never having their toots appear in my home feed.
@atomicpoet I think the stereotypical blue checkmarks (as opposed to the non-stereotypical ones) will each end up in their own instances, but with less clout compared to Twitter.
@mathlover The only instances they'll join are ones that deem them as more "credible" people than others because some cultural or business institution employs them.
In fact, I've heard blue checks say as much. They don't like the Fediverse because it's largely run by volunteer sysadmins who won't protect them.
@atomicpoet Interesting. Why am I not surprised that this is the case?
@atomicpoet Are you referring to the Twitter project called Blue Sky? I didn't know they had that much PR pieces around, let alone a go-to bit of FUD.
@atomicpoet Holy shit! Let me read this now.
@atomicpoet I must've skimmed past this when I read the article when it first came out. Holy crap.
In their minds, if they’re no money exchanging hands, the service will disappear in a year.
I don’t know if it’s that but I do know (I work in IT for a Company that’s in the top 150 of Fortune rankings) that there is a general perception among Supply Chain and Legal that if no money is exchanged then it’s hard to sue if something goes wrong.
I kept pointing out the indemnity clauses that everyone continues to agree to (even from Microsoft) but they weren’t buying it. LOL.
But we are becoming more open to FOSS just not at the enterprise level.
@gme @mathlover I believe Red Hat's (now part of IBM) entire business model is selling free software to the Enterprise. Yeah, it's free but Enterprise wants to pay.
We have a bunch of RHEL7 and RHEL8 installs but we’re actively switching to Oracle Linux I think.
@gme @mathlover Not Slackware?!?
Haha! Nope. Unless it’s running on a blackbox appliance that a vendor supports.
@gme @atomicpoet @mathlover Corporations do so love having a vendor to blame if things go sideways.
@atomicpoet @gme @mathlover As a sole proprietor IT consultant, I've encountered this. Corporate departments have budgets to use or lose. They'd rather waste money this year than lose the option of wasting it again next year.
Very true. November and December are the two busiest months of our year. If we have any budget leftover it has to be spent and the product/ service has to be delivered by 12/31. It’s a mad house. Everyone jockeying for their special project/ purchase.
@gme @atomicpoet @mathlover Well, it's not only that. You buy Big Blue, you're also paying for several guys in white lap coats to show up with furrowed brows at the first hint of trouble. They may not get anything done, but they will look concerned.
The only thing IBM is good for is software audits.
@mathlover It's generally how Enterprise software works. The likes of IBM or Carnegie Mellon or the New York Times doesn't trust anything unless they can pay a $100,000 license for it. In their minds, if they're no money exchanging hands, the service will disappear in a year.
This is actually something Blue Sky brings up when they throw FUD at the Fediverse: Don't trust Mastodon, instances can disappear—but we have scale!