Dear colleagues. With all the goings on in the world and the rise of the ‘tech oligarchy’ it might be easy to turn cynical towards technology and IT. But if we want people freed from the influence of Meta, Amazon, Twitter and Google, our skills are in dire need to create accessible, easy to use, simple to switch to alternatives. People will need ways to connect to eachother more than ever and they need to be able to do it in a way that is not easy to manipulate. I’m counting on you!
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I am more cynical towards the general public. Because they don't care. Even if there are alternatives. And then many of those who do care are either too lazy anyways, or already block off at the idea of federation, even though E-Mail works the exact same way.
Mastodon has already lost for the next couple years, because everyone is running to Bluesky and Threads.
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@zilti I think we in a lot of ways sell it wrong. They indeed don’t care about federation, open source, moderation - they just want to see pictures of their grandkids. I think we need designers, UX experts, developers, copywriters, marketeers to make serious work of these platforms so we can all enjoy the benefits that maybe few understand.
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@Anneke Yes. People should not need to care about things like federation. That's ultimately an implementation detail. What matters is what this enables: choice and personal empowerment.
But lots of people don't want to "have to" choose. They want the One True Answer where everyone else already is, or they generally aren't interested.
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