Discussion · bonfire.cafe

Oh, and no, BlueSky doesn't count as an alternative, because it's just as much a walled-garden again.

What is needed of an alternative is that it's open and free, and allows everyone to write their own software to communicate with everyone else. The ActivityPub standard (which underlies the Fediverse) is currently the best and most widely adopted we have, and it's crucial that the networks you use implement that standard properly, i.e. by allowing federation by default in principle, unless there's reason to block specific servers.

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@mar@todon.nl replied · 3 months ago

Could the revolution really be that easy? Well, yes and no. Yes, because strengthening the open and free networks genuinely undermines the capitalists. But it's not peanuts, because we need to work together to change the course of a big and heavy monster, and that'll take time and solidarity.

And what to do with companies that scrape the Fediverse to train their AI brain-sucker models? That's a further issue, I think, and it requires separate tactics. How do we poison, sabotage or otherwise destroy these forms of exploitation?