John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed
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Would be nice if he promoted more fediverse platforms like Mbin
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You have to use a VPN.
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I just got it on the dl instead
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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
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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.
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I mistook it as you saying DDG is alt-tech. My mistake
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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
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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.
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"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.
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Their protocol allows for federated relay servers, but I'm not aware of anyone having done the exercise of launching one.
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I guess they weren't picked as they don't have official apps. Most people look for those first.
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Jack is still the single largest shareholder of private Bluesky stock ...
Oh vraiment?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8dm0ljg4y6o
If anyone tells you Jack isn't involved with BlueSky any more, you should really block them for either being willfully ignorant, or purposefully mistrustful
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technically we are federated, so kind of?
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That's because, to my understanding, the prerequisite to be able to launch one is "handle the raw, unfiltered firehose of all the traffic on the entire platform,". A relay has to be a mirror of the entire company's hosting infastructure, and you'd have to essentially do it for free. It's no puzzle to me why no one's done it yet.
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If your goal is truly to benefit the public, why wouldn't you start a non-profit?
Because your non-profit isn't likely to go anywhere; Capitalists don't give significant money to non-profits, but they'll invest in a public benefit corporation because of the potential for profit. The corporation can then take their money and use it for whatever public benefit it intends to work towards.
It's a workaround to try and scrape some benefit to society out of capital, that otherwise wouldn't exist.
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I’m sure he’s going to be facing lawsuits from Краснов and Wormtongue.
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Also Bluesky isn't an alternative to big tech, it IS big tech. I wish it wasn't stealing so much of our publicity lately.
This; I'm so sick of hearing it pop up when people mention alternatives.
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