> Mastodon and now threads aren't going to fully coopt that community -- And they need to fully coopt it to win.
And that's the problem with end-stage capitalist thought. Mastodon isn't trying to "win". Never has been.
Mastodon was all about creating a non-commercial community of people talking with each other. It was done so to prevent the inexorable enshittification process of a for-profit social network that must raise the walls of communication higher and higher to extract smaller slices of profit.
But no, Mastodon does not "need" to win. We're not even playing the same game. Winning in our collective cases is being able to talk with friends without being psychological-advert games, fuckyoupayme demands, bulk selling data to anyone who pays, forced viewing of advertiser content, or a multitude of new scams made by the advertiser committees.
And threads.net is still unblocked at my instance. We're waiting to see how it's going to play out. If they somehow, some way, actually act like a proper steward of the fediverse, I wouldn't mind talking with their users over federation. But if they allow or otherwise enable the wasteland facebook has created, fediblock'em.
And that's the problem with end-stage capitalist thought. Mastodon isn't trying to "win". Never has been.
Mastodon was all about creating a non-commercial community of people talking with each other. It was done so to prevent the inexorable enshittification process of a for-profit social network that must raise the walls of communication higher and higher to extract smaller slices of profit.
But no, Mastodon does not "need" to win. We're not even playing the same game. Winning in our collective cases is being able to talk with friends without being psychological-advert games, fuckyoupayme demands, bulk selling data to anyone who pays, forced viewing of advertiser content, or a multitude of new scams made by the advertiser committees.
And threads.net is still unblocked at my instance. We're waiting to see how it's going to play out. If they somehow, some way, actually act like a proper steward of the fediverse, I wouldn't mind talking with their users over federation. But if they allow or otherwise enable the wasteland facebook has created, fediblock'em.