The middle one! I think for-profit and non-profit solutions can co-exist and benefit off each other :)
As long as the advertisers and corporate bullshit stays on the for-profit solutions and doesn't start bleeding into everything else, this is fine. Hopefully they'll act as a wick and draw the corporate interests to themselves.
Luckily I do not think they will be able to add Ads to federated posts since ads need to be explicitly disclosed, and that means they can be easily blocked even at the server level
Agreed! I'm always nervous about EEE, but this is one of those cases where if they do try to modify the protocol, we all collectively tell them to fuck right off. They're here on our turf, we don't need them at all. They want to play nice in their own corner? Fine. They start misbehaving, sending ads, trying to change things? Pass, defederated.
Hopefully. The thing about social platforms is that if everyone else leaves and doesnt tell them to fuck right off, it can get lonely. Xmpp still exists and im sure some people use it successfully, but its definitely not the same scale it once was
The middle one! I think for-profit and non-profit solutions can co-exist and benefit off each other :)
As long as the advertisers and corporate bullshit stays on the for-profit solutions and doesn't start bleeding into everything else, this is fine. Hopefully they'll act as a wick and draw the corporate interests to themselves.
Luckily I do not think they will be able to add Ads to federated posts since ads need to be explicitly disclosed, and that means they can be easily blocked even at the server level
Agreed! I'm always nervous about EEE, but this is one of those cases where if they do try to modify the protocol, we all collectively tell them to fuck right off. They're here on our turf, we don't need them at all. They want to play nice in their own corner? Fine. They start misbehaving, sending ads, trying to change things? Pass, defederated.
Hopefully. The thing about social platforms is that if everyone else leaves and doesnt tell them to fuck right off, it can get lonely. Xmpp still exists and im sure some people use it successfully, but its definitely not the same scale it once was