2024-10-26

Antwort auf @dbrgn

@dbrgn Tja, Hochnebel-Saison halt 🌥️

10:19 [/mastodon]

RT lauren:

The way things are going, we’re going to end up with #Mastodon as the only social media platform left standing that not only isn’t controlled by billionaires, but by its very nature cannot be effectively controlled by billionaires. In this respect we’ve come full circle to the days before widespread public access to the Internet, when individual sites used the public telephone network and low speed modems to create ad hoc data networks for email and public discussions.

Everything old is new again.

09:59 [/mastodon]

RT dlr_next:

+++ An dieser Stelle einmal mehr unsere nachdrückliche Empfehlung: Bitte in der Nacht auf Sonntag nicht - wir wiederholen: nicht - die Zeit umstellen, sondern nur die Uhren. Wie schon oft angemerkt kann es sonst zu Rissen im Raumzeit-Kontinuum kommen. +++

09:59 [/mastodon]

RT williampietri:

Antwort auf @Gargron

@Gargron Having taken VC money for a startup, I want to confirm for others everything you’ve said. They promise big returns to their investors, but most startups fail, so they need the successful ones to make gobs of cash. Modest successes get pushed to take big risks until they get rich or die trying. And if they do win big, they’ll be pushed to extract ever more cash, causing enshittification. That’s the VC game, and Mastodon is smart not to play it.

09:43 [/mastodon]

RT jk:

i think the privatization and financialization of everyday services and goods has done more than anything in culture to make society decohere. interacting with the world on basically any level now largely consists of attempting to outwit giant systems designed to exploit you. from the perspective of an individual, there is virtually no consistent expectation of any duty of care, moral responsibility, or trust evident in daily life, so there’s little to suggest you value those qualities either

09:32 [/mastodon]