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@humanetech @Bernard @NGIZero @EC_NGI @dachary People who don't care about ethics in tech can have their trending Github-friendly web5 systems, and that's ok for them if it's their decision.

What I guess I am trying to say is that there isn't any value in trying to compete with something that's unethical by trying to become more like it.

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@humanetech @bob @Bernard @NGIZero @EC_NGI @dachary Having an organization to maintain standards requires at least enough capital to have full time staff. At present that's not something that we have. When you look at how it works for other internet standards it always comes down to something like BigTech stuffing the board of directors with the money ultimately coming from advertising.

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@humanetech @bob The other way of putting it is that considering yourself to be significantly more enlightened than almost everyone else is a kind of snobbery.

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@humanetech @IgnisIncendio DID is another underspecified thing which would be likely to create fragmentation due to the lack of any singular underlying identity mechanism. This is a recipe for further balkanisation/division into identity silos, rather than unification of the internet as a global publically accessible system.

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@humanetech @jande @keith @NGIZero @EC_NGI fediverse is a rising threat to the megacorps in the same way that Linux was a rising threat to Microsoft. They will try to coopt it, and they might use similar tactics to the past, such as creating a corp-funded foundation to support fediverse development, analogous to the Linux Foundation.

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UKpol - what comes next

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@Janetgunter One possible advantage is that if the state withdraws then that creates opportunities for other things to happen, and there is not really a tradition of supporting fascism at grassroots level, particularly in the north of England and Wales. So if there is local rule again then it might not be of a fascistic sort.

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@humanetech @Bernard @NGIZero @EC_NGI @dachary It is difficult to imagine that happening with a federated protocol which is an open standard. Targeted advertising couldn't happen in the same way.

There's a reason why web5 didn't just adopt AP with a plan to extend and extinguish.

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@dansup I am also a fediverse project sole developer, but since my project is aimed at small scale there are some things that I don't need to be concerned about. Most of what I'm doing now is maintenance, polishing and documentation.

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