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@smallcircles@social.coop  路  activity timestamp 4 days ago
#Ethics-at-scale in #FOSS. Who cares?

FOSS: "I made actor identity independent of DNS"

FOSS: "Nice! I bridged all the social web protocols"

FOSS: "And I made service development dead easy, intuitive and productive"

Fedizen: "This is so wonderful. What a cozy place we have"

Meta: "We agree! We embraced the technology and today announce free fediverse access for anyone. Our datacenters are primed and ready for a billion more fedizens. That's not all! With Service Mart you're in full control!"
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@smallcircles@social.coop  路  activity timestamp 4 days ago
@davidcampey

That's only small part of the story, but good example. Where it says Meta you might fill in the name of any corp or group thereof. The anecdote in the the toot above is indicative of a much more general issue that exists in #FOSS. We cannot control the larger picture, effectively 'dump' tech into society on license protection alone, a de-facto "tech means progress" assumption.

I gave follow-up to the #ActivityPub developer community in a #SocialHub topic:

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fediverse-activitypub-and-the-ethics/5432