I can't help but feel confused about what the W3C is for. Is it an organisation for all possible stakeholders? From governments to community groups so that everyone can come together to build a better web for everyone?
Or is it just for the likes of Google, Microsoft, Facebook etc?
Because as Dentangle points out the fees for business are huge. Unlike say OSI there are no individual memberships.
So again what is the purpose of the W3C, who does it serve?
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.
@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
