Tim O’Reilly: “AI has adopted colonialism as its business model”. Strong words! But he explains: “Extract resources from others and use it to enrich yourself and your customers at the expense of those whose resources you have taken, without giving much back.” Guilty as charged I would say.

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If we wanted to grow the Open Social Web by a factor of 1000 -- roughly the number of users on Meta platforms today compared to, say, Mastodon -- how would we go about it? P.S. Obviously while keeping the good things we have here, and making them even better, rather than backsliding / enshittifying / ...

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), you obviously have gotten a lot of praise for your Fediverse video, and deservedly so. Many people commented on the sheer production quality. I want to add that your narrative is also first-class. I cannot think of anybody who has told the Fediverse story better than you have, and usually the stories being told are much worse. How did you come up with it? That's also your work, right?

One of the big conceptual questions that's unresolved in the #Fediverse is: Just what exactly is an instance for? Yep, it's a separate installation of server software. But what exactly does instance 1 give me compared to instance 2? Answer A: it makes no difference except on policy: who runs it, what are their TOS, moderation policy etc. The Local feed has no significance. Answer B: Beyond that, it defines a community. The local feed is essential. Which should it be?

Fascinated by @npub17m8z...rsw8's renaming of the "Fediverse Report" to "Connected Places". He could have called it "Global Townsquare" but he didn't. I very much agree. This is all about connecting distinct places on the web, not mashing them all up into one.

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We need to separate identity from servers in the ActivityPub world. It's time. I should be able to have a single identity and use it with lots of servers from Mastodon to Lemmy and beyond. Then, various instances could reflect different communities with different people in them, different features and policies. This also would elegantly solve the "instance selection paralysis" in @npub1vag7...mjkp 's Deadly Fediverse UX sin #1. Fortunately @npub17gq5...8hhz is starting to assemble people to solve this.

"They promised connection. But they delivered addiction, surveillance, and manipulation." What a simple, powerful statement about commercial social media by [@_elena](

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) in her amazing movie. I'm going to steal this. (With attribution of course!) https://videos.elenarossini.com/w/64VuNCccZNrP4u9MfgbhkN

An unexpected obstacle to adoption. I assume Mastodon would be no different: “I spoke with a few congressional staffers who said that they had tried using Bluesky as an alternative to Twitter after Twitter was purchased by Elon Musk, but they gave up after their bosses kept getting yelled at by Democratic users angry at their impotence.”

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Utah is going to legally require social media interoperability and portability of the social graph. Wow, this law has been signed and it somehow passed under my radar. IMHO It has a good change to substantially impact the open social web, in a very good way. Thanks @npub1vag7...mjkp for the tip!

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