If you're looking for a platform without billionaire investors and owners, well, this is the only one.
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Vic Uzumerireplied to 👺防空識別區👹 （mix mastering） last edited by
Umm ... are you married? There are costs to that strategy.
I'm just asking if some folks who are smarter than me can help craft an effective story. I suspect there are quite a few potential converts who might be helped.
You know, a "feature, not bug" type explanation.
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@steevc which?
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👺防空識別區👹 （mix mastering）replied to Vic Uzumeri last edited by
@vicuzumeri Just shout at her "JOIN OR DIE" over and over again. @evan
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Evan Prodromoureplied to 👺防空識別區👹 （mix mastering） last edited by
@adiz @vicuzumeri come on.
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@snaeqe There are!
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@vicuzumeri that's not a technical problem; it's a social one.
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@vicuzumeri @adiz @evan Having a global town square and talking to everybody is an illusion. Imagine you wanted to spend just 1 minute with every person on the planet individually, then do the math - this would take a couple of years!
Also, if you're interested in diversity, this is the only place where you can get it, because the engagement-based feeds hone in on your prime interest and then start shadow-banning everything else. I actually saw less things on Xitter than I can see here.
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@evan Says the person who took fediverse 1.0 to VC funders and turned it into "Enterprise Social Software".
Then the money ran out, as did you.
You could be telling that story over and over again as a cautionary tale, instead of kidding on that you're some kind of flawless elder statesman.
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Err. I think Evan was looking for other revenue streams to keep the identi.ca service going for enthusiastic and loyal users (like me and you). He was undoubtedly subsiding the costs of providing that service for a long time (probably out of his own pocket).
Not harbouring dreams of becoming a 'billionaire'.
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@andyc Thanks!
Also, hi! It feels like it's been a while. How are you?
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@evan Still working for the evil borg (Oracle) working on DB cloud migrations and studiously avoiding AI/LLM's.
Still clinging to the distant, forlorn hope of becoming a billionaire
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@andyc Good on you! You can buy a social network, then.
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@asha that's interesting. What do you mean by "not monetized"? There are already lots of Fediverse services you pay to use, like masto.host and wordpress.com. I think they're OK, although I prefer cooperative models like cosocial (which members also pay for).
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sorry, i expressed myself somewhat incorrectly, as you posted already before, i hope that the fediverse will stay free of billionaires, oligarchs, etc., and won't be hijacked and destroyed by them. -
@asha yeah, I think there's a biiiiiig difference in kind between commercial services as an option, and having the entire thing run by a single company. I'm much less concerned about other people making commercial-oriented choices with their social networking if I can easily opt out and ignore it.
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@andyc also, and I hate to be the one to tell you, but Oracle isn't even in the top 20 of most evil tech companies any more. It feels kind of quaint to think about a time when the worst thing a tech company could do was have aggressive sales teams that get their product into a borderline monopoly percentage of the world's server rooms.
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