Should a single company control the Social Web?
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@hallenbeck I asked Mike Masnick and Bryan Newbold to work on a patent pledge at a corporate level, so others in the area can review and learn from their work. I also think participating in groups like the SocialCG, and making sure to bring their learnings proactively, help a lot too.
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@evan Seems entirely reasonable and healthy.
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Raccoon at TechHub :mastodon:replied to Emelia 👸🏻 last edited by [email protected]
@thisismissem @evan
I will believe it when I can respond to a post on threads and actually have a conversation with someone there like I could on here: right now they just seem to think of this as extended reach for their influencers to talk at. -
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@j0 @evan @hallenbeck
I will give you that, that is a problem too.But let's be clear, that's not all of us: I try to be pretty supportive of anyone I think is trying to make a good faith effort to get in on the network, because I want the protocol to be open and widely adopted, and I want the network to be mainstream. I feel like the people who get angry at new entrants have every right to feel threatened by it, but we have to remember that they are a minority.
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@evan though I feel it's probs gonna not have much variation, ye should try this poll on other social medias and see how ze results differ. Could be interesting
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@munsterlandr I did it on Threads with similar but more qualified results.
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@munsterlandr I don't use X or Bluesky, but feel free to post other places and let me know the results!
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@thejvmbender I don't understand why this made you vote "Strong yes". Just to spoil the results?
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@khleedril First of all, thanks for the note. Second, why do you think this is such a daft poll?
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@evan There is nothing to learn from this; the outcome is a foregone conclusion.
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@khleedril Not for me, actually. It's been really helpful to get some confirmation that I'm not an outlier on this one.
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@evan @hallenbeck
We have brought some of our work to the W3C community, including the recent TPAC meeting:
https://social.coop/@bnewbold/113199431948755006
I've had a Bluesky-affiliated W3C account for some time, and just joined the SocialCG just now (I thought I had done this previously, but apparently had only signed up for the mailing list) -
other folks have raised similar concerns in the past. you can see an open and and collaborative conversation from October 2023, resulting in license changes in November 2023:
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@bnewbold @hallenbeck that shows some real proactive engagement, Bryan.
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@bnewbold @hallenbeck awesome!
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@bnewbold @hallenbeck one thing that we could do, if you wanted to, is publish the AT Protocol specs as a CG Report. That process is pretty lightweight, but includes granting licenses on trademark, copyright, patents, etc. It would be a quick way to make this move.
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@evan
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@evan I'm curious what would be the expected result in the same poll in Twitter... (rhetorical question)
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@lvctvs I don't use X or Bluesky but if you do this poll lmk
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@virtuous_sloth or mistakes or VCs
