Mark Gardner ‍:sdf: on Nostr: We all chuckle uncomfortably when #Starbucks talks about their vision of creating ...

We all chuckle uncomfortably when #Starbucks talks about their vision of creating urban sociologist Ray Oldenburg’s “third place” beyond home and work, right?

Why don’t we do the same when walled garden platform vendors like #Meta and #Twitter go on about becoming the digital “town square”?

Neither is their actual incentive. They just want to collect lots of us together to drink their coffee or pay attention to their advertisers.