In agreement with Brian. Perhaps worth putting to the 'wealthy entrepreneurs' that they may consider donating instead to Mastodon's development/bug-bounties, an existing migration target that is free, open source, and already supporting very large populations across its many instances. If they would chose otherwise, I would question their motives from the outset.
Further, the build-it-and-they-will-come fiction has played out very badly in the past as regards community infrastructure. I think it wiser to better what we already have, nourishing the work, thought and communities in place. Again, my only missive is that Mastodon DMs are not E2EE. Such a feature would be a boon for Mastodon, not only as message transparency to sysadmins has been oft cited in the past few days as a reason to not migrate to Mastodon (despite the irony of Twitter being no different). Cheers, Julian ..on Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 09:56:55AM +0200, Bill Woodcock wrote: > > > > On Apr 28, 2022, at 1:49 AM, Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]> wrote: > > If there is any lesson from all this, I suspect it's that any centralized > > communication service even run by the most competent, well intentioned, > > humble and not-profit-oriented (clearly, judging from their stock price) > > founders & techs is susceptable to subsequent capture by others. As the > > open source software community figured out, the "right to fork" is the only > > meaningful check on the winner-take-all power-corrupts dynamic in networks. > > > > So I think the answer is, those founders should either make their service > > with, or just go use one of the existing implementations of, Mastodon or > > other emerging dweb alternatives. > > Yep, what Brian said. > > The only legitimate way to do anything, pretty much, is by inclusively > designing an open protocol, and then letting people who want to use it > implement it. If the protocol is well designed, you’re done. No “service” > needed. > > -Bill > > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable from any major commercial > search engine. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/lt. Unsubscribe, change to digest > mode, or change password by emailing [email protected]. -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable from any major commercial search engine. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/lt. Unsubscribe, change to digest mode, or change password by emailing [email protected].
