Returning to the #FreeOurFeeds (FOF) initiative discussion (for background see links below)...
@pluralistic has a new piece (https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/20/capitalist-unrealism/) 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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@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.
Found the examples of previous standards efforts interesting too, and don't know enough about any of those cases to know if the analogy to AT Protocol is valid. Historically most standards efforts that came out of proprietary technologies were based on the recognition that interoperability among different corporate technologies was beneficial, and that attempts to lock in everything was non-competitive. Not sure that really applies here.