Fediverse

This is a very well-written post, and it's sad, because the same thing is going to happen with it as with all the other well-written take-downs of proprietary, siloed, platforms: the people who /need/ to read it aren't /going/ to read it, and WhatsApp (slash Facebook, slash Twitter, slash Instagram, slash Signal, slash ...) is still going to be used by a huge portion of the population.

Maybe I just feel really cynical today. I do think that "user domestication" is a great metaphor for what happens. I guess what I'm saying is: fighting against this kind of corporate behavior feels about as effective as fighting against factory farming by going vegetarian. Like, sure, it helps, but the machine is /so big/. It's hard to feel like we're doing anything.