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"These days, everyone hates big tech, and that’s often for very good reasons.
You shouldn’t trust giant centralized companies that have collected a
ridiculous amount of data on you. There are few reasonable alternatives, so
they can keep you stuck in their silos. They just move more and more rapidly
along the enshittification curve, extracting more and more value from you for
less value given back.
But, at the same time, one reason why people keep using those big tech services
is because the underlying services are useful. The ability to connect with
people and information around the world is still quite wonderful. However, the
fact that so much of the internet has become controlled by a few giant
companies remains a problem.
Some feel that this sort of thing is inevitable, and the answer will be to
constantly go through a cycle of breaking up the big companies to allow the
smaller ones to grow. But, it would also be nice if we got away from the setup
where we just expect we’re going to hand our lives and our data over to one
giant company, and went back towards the promise of the early internet, where
the power and control were at the ends of the network (the users) and not the
giant central nodes.
Enter Bluesky, which remains the most interesting experiment in social media.
It has recently both opened up federation, but even more interestingly it has
abstracted out the moderation layer (along with open sourcing tooling for
people to use). This means that anyone can provide moderation services, and
users can pick who they want to moderate their experience.
It may be difficult to wrap your head around how this works and why this
matters, but I’m going to try to break it down with this article."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
