FoxByte on Nostr: Nobody us above their incentives.... I think about bluesky and other platforms. They ...
Nobody us above their incentives....
I think about bluesky and other platforms. They aren't any more immune to enshitification than X or Facebook. So what about Mastodon/ActivityPub, is it immune?
I think its harder to enshitifiy all of it... But the user is captive on the host. I've moved between instances before, it isn't pretty. If you are blocked or deleted from an instance, there is no "moving instances", you are starting over. As well, being a single-user instance is highly frowned upon, and very lonely. Somehow you find your way into someone's distributed block list just because you are on a single-user instance. Instance owners aren't above their incentives. What if Merck starts to fund an instance!? Will they prevent talk about the danger of certain Pharmaceuticals? Sponsor ads? Will the host sell the instance or the data from the instance to a 3rd party?
I think this is one place where Nostr really shines. The user isn't captive to a relay. They can move to new relays, taking their identity and content with then, to avoid whatever behavior on a relay.
#enshitification #plebchain #nostr
I think about bluesky and other platforms. They aren't any more immune to enshitification than X or Facebook. So what about Mastodon/ActivityPub, is it immune?
I think its harder to enshitifiy all of it... But the user is captive on the host. I've moved between instances before, it isn't pretty. If you are blocked or deleted from an instance, there is no "moving instances", you are starting over. As well, being a single-user instance is highly frowned upon, and very lonely. Somehow you find your way into someone's distributed block list just because you are on a single-user instance. Instance owners aren't above their incentives. What if Merck starts to fund an instance!? Will they prevent talk about the danger of certain Pharmaceuticals? Sponsor ads? Will the host sell the instance or the data from the instance to a 3rd party?
I think this is one place where Nostr really shines. The user isn't captive to a relay. They can move to new relays, taking their identity and content with then, to avoid whatever behavior on a relay.
#enshitification #plebchain #nostr