Océane on Nostr: npub1g8ew6…7qdqf It's an excellent post. I agree with everything you wrote. I'd ...
npub1g8ew6jwnylnyvc5q4h5w8r7e7uxksz8qd4mr3wjxmx555c6dxtdqm7qdqf (npub1g8e…qdqf) It's an excellent post. I agree with everything you wrote. I'd like to pinpoint another issue – the Mastodon stack is difficult to maintain, so few developers are available, and it also isn't efficient, which means that instances that commit to open registrations actually face high bills.
This is why we need to fund more alternatives to Mastodon. I'm not trying to say we should get rid of it, and it won't harm the fediverse if people run it, but we also need to fund e.g. Bonfire Networks (which are coded in Elixir) and GoToSocial (which is coded in Go).
I'm sticking to my idea that Facebook is also attacking the moment Mastodon is having from tech and generalistic media outlets, and I also think that the timing wasn't innocuous, that we know since *1975* that capitalists and States are using sociology to exerce power on people, and I can pull a sociological reference that has been used for this timing. In other words, the same concept (biopower) can be associated to both brain stimulation reward and to what happened on the fediverse these last few days. It was a first strike. The goal was to increase the pressure on large instance admins to get them to resign, and it almost worked with dansup.
What these criminals really need though is a transfer of resources from more legitimate organizations, and also maybe symbolic capital, e.g. to have public figures on their instance. That's what snake oil is – symbolic capital – and this is how long-running scams (or what I call “market abuse”) work. (I talk about it here, but it's written in French: https://océane.fr/la-maltraitance-numérique.)
This is why we need to fund more alternatives to Mastodon. I'm not trying to say we should get rid of it, and it won't harm the fediverse if people run it, but we also need to fund e.g. Bonfire Networks (which are coded in Elixir) and GoToSocial (which is coded in Go).
I'm sticking to my idea that Facebook is also attacking the moment Mastodon is having from tech and generalistic media outlets, and I also think that the timing wasn't innocuous, that we know since *1975* that capitalists and States are using sociology to exerce power on people, and I can pull a sociological reference that has been used for this timing. In other words, the same concept (biopower) can be associated to both brain stimulation reward and to what happened on the fediverse these last few days. It was a first strike. The goal was to increase the pressure on large instance admins to get them to resign, and it almost worked with dansup.
What these criminals really need though is a transfer of resources from more legitimate organizations, and also maybe symbolic capital, e.g. to have public figures on their instance. That's what snake oil is – symbolic capital – and this is how long-running scams (or what I call “market abuse”) work. (I talk about it here, but it's written in French: https://océane.fr/la-maltraitance-numérique.)