John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed
-
The CEO is problematic and right wing, for examples see the most recent paragraphs in his career section on Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich
-
Someone is wrong lol. NFL, for example, cannot do anything outside of Twitter at this time. They are apparently working on it, but it's gotta be implemented league-wide, so it's taking some time. Idk if they're even trying to get onto Mastodon, last I heard it was just Bluesky.
This is a large org with hundreds of millions of fans, with no presence on Fediverse really. I'm sure there are mirror accounts, but none are official.
-
In both cases it was primarily performative for Americans but this time there will be considerable chunk of Europeans who will be looking to leave big tech for services in non-hostile countries.
-
I'm really not happy about bluesky their fragmentation of the fediverse protocols is only going to harm us in the long run.
-
I'm not familiar with the details of that, but it seems like more of a red herring that a start to me. A form of controlled opposition to divert people from truly revolutionary platforms.
-
DDG and Brave were pushed as "censorship free" alternatives, back when I was looking into covid disinformation, because the very obviously fake websites would sometimes rank higher on them
There may be more to it though
-
-
The show itself, no, but I think most of the writers moved their personal accounts to Bluesky.
-
Would be nice if he promoted more fediverse platforms like Mbin
Missed opportunity. -
You have to use a VPN.
-
️
-
I just got it on the dl instead
-
I mean yeah, doesnt matter. The point is people shared alternatives to big tech just like folks who are not in the power right now
-
Wait, the Mozilla guy who got pressured to resign over opposition to gay marriage is the Brave guy?? Fuck him lol.
Unsurprising he’s also a dipshit about COVID.
-
I mistook it as you saying DDG is alt-tech. My mistake
-
Would like to get my family on Signal. I deleted my facebook account and now we use various other chat apps that I don't quite like
-
-
Brave's business model is a crypto scam wrapped in a protection racket. It man-in-the-middles the site's ads, replacing them with Brave's own, then holds the revenue hostage unless the site gives legitimacy to Brave's crypto by accepting it as payment.
For comparison, "normal" ad-blocking consists of an end-user exercising his property right to control the operation of his own computer by programming it not to display the ads at all.
Hopefully you can see how the thing Brave does is very different, and much more ethically fraught.
-
"Public benefit corporation" is such an oxymoron, I know it's cliché to say this but it reads like something out of 1984.
If your goal is truly to benefit the public, why wouldn't you start a non-profit? It's because they want profits, which will always be at odds with the interests of the public.
