Told y’all mastodon being the majority here is not a good thing…

https://socialwebfoundation.org/

I hate this.

I hate that I was right.

Everything is about 🤑🤑🤑. It always has been.

#Fedi #Fediverse #Mastodon #SocialWebFoundation

  • Evan Prodromou@cosocial.ca
    3·
    4 months ago

    @BeAware@social.beaware.live I don’t think our goal is just to make money. I do think that having a financially viable Fediverse is important; it’s one of our goals. But that can mean a lot of different things: coops, non-profits, grants, or companies.

    But the money is a means to an end: having positive, independent social networking software and services.

    • BeAware :fediverse:@social.beaware.liveOP
      2·
      4 months ago

      @evan@cosocial.ca I just hope there’s no major financial influence from the major companies involved like Meta.

      I don’t want to lose control of my own site because I am not a programmer. I have a bit of control with Mastodon right now. However, there are some gripes everyone has had like lack of moderation features.

      I worry a financial influence to change certain things will lessen my control and I’d have to find another software.

      My worries always come from a place of passion and concern.

      Thanks for your response. I appreciate you.

  • Tom Casavant@tomkahe.com
    2·
    4 months ago

    @BeAware@social.beaware.live I dunno, all I ever hear from AP devs is it’s impossible to work with because there’s no formal org for standardization so they’re forced to just conform to how mastodon handles everything

    This feels more like Evan taking a larger role in how AP is organized. I’m not even sure what it means to be an ‘industry supporter’ it sounds like that’s just a list of orgs that said ‘that’s a good idea’

    • BeAware :fediverse:@social.beaware.liveOP
      1·
      4 months ago

      @hallenbeck@mastodon.social because we’re back on a Meta controlled platform now and we didn’t ask for that.

      They now have a reason to be influenced by outside sources.

        • BeAware :fediverse:@social.beaware.liveOP
          1·
          4 months ago

          @hallenbeck@mastodon.social because this place is supposed to be non-corporate controlled. Not controlled by 1 big entity. Not controlled by investors and executive decisions.

          This is enshittification at its finest…

          • hallenbeck@mastodon.social
            1·
            4 months ago

            @BeAware@social.beaware.live A foundation like this isn’t “control”. It’s a foundation, not a governing body. If you don’t like corporations, have can you tolerate using the internet at all? Its infrastructure is riddled with corporate interest. ISPs, CDNs, cloud providers, telecom and cable companies, IXPs, hardware manufacturers, data centre operators. Despite that, we do still have an open, interoperable network of networks that is not controlled by any one of them.

            • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org
              1·
              4 months ago

              You can criticize capitalism from inside capitalism, you know? The feudal lords who owned the pitchforks and guillotines in France must have noted the irony.

  • BeAware :fediverse:@social.beaware.liveOP
    1·
    4 months ago

    And people wonder why I don’t post here that much anymore.

    It’s not the same as it was just a few short months ago.

    Mastodon has taken over and they refuse to do anything about major issues here.

    They’re set to make a ton of money from this, all while their 20,000+ instance admins don’t even have basic automated reporting or useful moderation tools.

    You wanna know why harassment is rampant on Fediverse? Cause moderators have to have eyes on the post themselves to moderate it.

    If you don’t report it, it doesn’t get moderated.🤦‍♂️

    Ugh!😩

    • The VHS Wizard 📼🧙@retro.pizza
      1·
      4 months ago

      @BeAware@social.beaware.live You wanna know the dumbest part about it?

      If you go down to the bottom, the links they have for them ON social media are… Threads, X, and “Social Web” which one would assume is, like, their instance of whatever it is.

      But if you try and click on the Social Web link, it takes you to https://socialwebfoundation.org/@swf which is clearly broken because (at least in Firefox) it shows up as just the raw data

      Screenshot from their webpage which SHOULD be their social media profile, but is just unformatted views of their json, raw data, and headers

    • J@aipub.social
      1·
      4 months ago

      @BeAware@social.beaware.live and here I thought you weren’t posting because traversing the highways of the oldest anarchy server in Minecraft history, 2b2t, took a lot of attention :pedro:

    • BeAware :fediverse:@social.beaware.liveOP
      1·
      4 months ago

      @TransitBiker@urbanists.social I’m still digging my heels into it right now. From the surface it seems very suspicious and financially motivated centralization of a decentralized platform, which is not good.

      However, there may be some underlying bright side.

      I’ll have to get back to you with my full thoughts once I wrap my head around it all.

    • BeAware :fediverse:@social.beaware.liveOP
      1·
      4 months ago

      @TransitBiker@urbanists.social so, it’s very vague, but it’s basically a foundation that’s supposed to be the official “decision makers” on AP, the protocol that runs the Fediverse.

      The worrying thing, is that their board of advisors are big companies like Meta and Automattic, who both have massive financial incentives to change things for their benefit.

  • AdeptVeritatis@social.tchncs.de
    1·
    4 months ago

    @BeAware@social.beaware.live

    It already starts with the preview image for the website.

    Incorporating the EU flag to fake a unity. But in fact, it shows their one-big-corporate of strength ideology, which is the only way they can think of.