You are correct. The term is called "openwashing". Now and then bluesky ~~employees~~ cultists will come on Lemmy and mastodon and try to LARP that their for-profit company has our best interests in mind.
Kirk
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"[deleted]" means a user removed it. It's probably users who nuked their accounts (I'm one of them!)
In case anyone else was wondering, "shut down" here means someone put some metal over it and hired two ~~airline pilots~~ security guards to watch over.
It comes from this 2019 post by Mike Masnick.
Unfortunately the atprotocol is more like Profits > People > Platforms
Absolutely I was not trying to take away from your point! Cory Doctorow actually recently wrote a good piece on Wikipedia that you reminded me of.
I agree with your overall point, but Wikipedia has a singular mission. Social settings can have wildy different missions from shitposting, to hobbies, study groups, to support groups, etc. There is no singular moderation ethos that can apply to all of them, that's why decentralization is important in social media.
We want to algorithms to work for the people, not have people slaving for the algorithms.
I don't understand, $600M? Is anyone using this browser?
Nothing big is wrong with them, the drama got blown way out of proportion to a frankly insane degree.
My rule of thumb is to delete any service with "inserted content" I'm unable to block
Bazzite is based on Fedora no? This could be very cool
Nope just ghost.org. They're a Substack competitor but have been embracing activitypub/the open web. It's nice to see.
Don't let them distract with with the "whattabout matrix". The Matrix Foundation is not a social media company, and furthermore it's a nonprofit.