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Returning to the (FOF) initiative discussion (for background see links below)...

@pluralistic has a new piece (pluralistic.net/2025/01/20/cap) that extends his "fire exit" analogy and discusses how it is not corporate ownership, VCs or profit motive alone that causes enshitification. It also requires captive users, and FOF will make it so Bluesky users are not captive. It all sounds good, but it's not realistic because the assumptions behind it are based on vaporware marketing.

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pluralistic.netPluralistic: Enshittification isn’t caused by venture capital (20 Jan 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

@mastodonmigration @pluralistic good thread that makes a compelling case to at least be skeptical of FOF. Cory's piece is convincing that it's not VC funding specifically that leads to enshittification, but not, it seems to me, specifically that BS/FOF will create escape routes. I think some of his support of FOF is who is involved in the project and he also provides examples of prior cases of escape routes being created before. And, he makes argument that the 20M BS users deserve one.

Demian

@mastodonmigration @pluralistic Related. There's a good interview on Tech Policy Press by @justinhendrix of folks from FOF at player.captivate.fm/episode/a1
They're thinking pretty broadly about challenges, but still didn't seem that clear what the plan is to create the fire exits.

@dgodon @pluralistic @justinhendrix

Not that you'd expect a show like this to be anything else, but they do a very good job of articulating a vision, without offering anything convincing that what they want to achieve is doable. Don't expect a detailed technical presentation. There are plenty of those. The bottom line is that unless the company has demonstrated this technology at scale (and has a convincing story about how it all is open sourced) it is a fools errand to head off to develop it.