The (annotated) case for a "big fedi"
The (annotated) case for a "big fedi"
As Johnny Rotten once said, "Two sides to every story"
A response to Evan Prodromou's "Big Fedi, Small Fedi"
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These pieces are deeply authoritarian. Trying to take personal responsibility for command control of everyone's words and thoughts and actions must be taxing, especially when there isn't actually any mechanism for implementing such control.
Adolf Hitler himself could rise from the dead and start up a new instance running a trans furry port of mastodon or lemmy and there isn't much to do but block and move on. That's because it's libre software. If you want somewhere you can lobby and totally control, you don't want a decentralized libre platform like the fediverse, you want big tech.
Me: "fedi would be better with fewer Nazis and fascists"
sj_zero: "these pieces are deeply authoritarian"
It's always nice when authoritarians can paint whoever they disagree with as the great Satan to justify their authoritarianism. It only happens every single time.
And yet if the Fediverse were to take off, you would not be able to blink twice before it's all commercialized and controlled.
Unfortunately, it's the paradox of liberty that to be free you need to also give freedom to people you don't like who will do things you don't like.
In spite of that, libre is an ideal worth pursuing. Otherwise everyone might as well just go right back to big tech now.