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I'm confused when devs claim that you can't experiment with software on the fediverse. I have spent the last 5 years of my life building experimental software on the fediverse, and people have been very supportive!

There is a MASSIVE design space for weird ideas that are not just dressed-up surveillance capitalism, but so many devs come here saying "I will try out some dressed-up surveillance capitalism" and then act like their genius design thinking is being stymied when people say "fuck off"

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ashley

@darius @randomgeek i mean, there’s a dolphin themed instance where the only letter you can use is “e”

[notices who i’m replying to]

ah, that was you

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college_physics

@darius surveillance capitalism is fairly specific form of commercialism. The question is whether the fediverse can be free of commercial motive of any kind. I believe the answer depends on scale. As a niche project between tech savvy individuals spending hobby time it could be a profit-motive free zone. But as a replacement for mass social I struggle to see how that could be. Even if entirely funded as public good there will be friction around procurements. Life is not simple.

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Luc Seufer :unverified:

@darius any examples of funky projects you have worked on and we can try?

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Colin aka ManiacalV

@darius I wrote a big (for me) and award winning (in the library world) WordPress plugin back a few years ago and our library switched to a new system that's paid for by our consortium, so I'm not developing it at work anymore. I asked and they're fine with me having the code now. It's a room booking and event calendar for libraries (and anyone else) who can't afford the big names. Free as in beer.

I need to overhaul it. Wonder if it's worth dusting off for the fediverse...

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Chuck Munson

@darius Sounds like as if some devs entered the WordPress ecosystem for the first time and said the same thing. It's really exciting to see all of the new things being cooked up around the fediverse.

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Ansel Halliburton

@darius This post is so good that I boosted it, faved it, AND bookmarked it.

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