@onepict It's an interesting point. I had not previously thought of the rise of Facebook et. al as a failure of the open web, but of course it's an *induced* failure, as companies saw a more profitable opportunity in locking people in.
@wendyg exactly, there's a reason I wrote this for fluconf this week.
We're valuable both as a userbase to manipulate as well as a huge amount of data for #SurveillanceCapitalism to use and abuse
We do need to ask these questions if we want to know why Mom and Pop stores just set up on Facebook or other hard to move from silos.
Where they pay for access to ad networks for the potential of impressions on the web via #DigitalPoppets
Why the ecosystem of web development firms point small business to integrate with #SurveillanceCapitalism to help small businesses have a Storefront on the web.
It's more than ease of set up. The web isn't really there to serve our communities.
