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@Bernard @NGIZero @EC_NGI @dachary

This technology base has now proven itself to be ready for more widespread adoption. Marketing teams are relentlessly driving it. An open source dev ecosystem of projects evolves around it. Not of the deeply caring, ethical fedi devs, mind you. More the kind of devs that hardly know what a License is, and of whom Github is full of.

Suddenly is on the sides. We'll exist, but may decline. Instead of open standards the alternative gets industry ones.

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smallcircles (Humane Tech Now)

@Bernard @NGIZero @EC_NGI @dachary

No matter all the soothing words I hear of people saying "This can never happen", "Fediverse is too strong", "They never get the culture right", "They underestimate what's needed for success" and so forth, I can't get the nagging feeling off my chest that we aren't ready to face such competition. And that if such a scenario would come about we wouldn't end up with either a Corporate Fediverse™ or some Betamax-vs-VHS watered down alternative that wins the day.

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Bob Mottram

@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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