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(DIR) Post #As0F1ZFa1x7gSYg9Mu by alecmuffett@mastodon.social
2025-03-12T18:50:54Z
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Heya @strypey - I just found the attached thread. Nope, I'm not getting paid by anyone. I stand by all of that even today.Also, yes, if you're going to have dinner with your friends you have to go to the same restaurant with them. It's kind of part of the laws of physics. Have a lovely day.https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/110350065339286904
(DIR) Post #As0F1aT5VDWQEk0S3s by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-03-13T06:04:27Z
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@alecmuffett> if you're going to have dinner with your friends you have to go to the same restaurant with themThat's an impressive example of burying the lede. You clearly missed - or carefully ignored - the end of the sentence you're referencing, where I said;> you'd have to go to the particular restaurant that's *holding your friends captive*@alecmuffett> I'm not getting paid by anyoneSo you do techno-feudalist apologetics in your spare time? More fool you.
(DIR) Post #As0F1eTabIIefSGuOm by alecmuffett@mastodon.social
2025-03-12T19:28:00Z
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@strypey ps: the joy of a virtual existence on the internet is that it is possible to stand on several islands simultaneously, without loss of value from or to any of them - apart from: having to deal with diversity. https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/114146577128880326
(DIR) Post #As0FrVgsViE6TgDPxw by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-03-13T06:13:50Z
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@alecmuffett > the joy of a virtual existence on the internet is that it is possible to stand on several islands simultaneouslyThis is so far off addressing the point I'm making that we're not even in the same discussion. Perhaps the problem is that you're approaching this as a product comparison exercise, and completely ignoring the political-economic dimension.Can I suggest a read of Shoshana Zuboff's Surveillance Capitalism, or Chokepoint Capitalism by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow?
(DIR) Post #As0TUr6E95CbZeADRo by alecmuffett@mastodon.social
2025-03-13T08:46:36Z
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@strypey I know Cory personally — we don't agree on everything, but that's okay — from 8 years I was on the board of the Open Rights Group / "The British EFF", and I'm familiar with his work & Zuboff's.Thing is: to claim that your friends are being "held captive" is to deny their agency to be in several places at once. You can't be "held hostage" on a website. That's not how it works — unless one is pushing a political agenda detached from the reality of online communication.
(DIR) Post #As8EADf37eYZQ0phYm by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-03-17T02:32:32Z
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@alecmuffett > I was on the board of the Open Rights Group / "The British EFF"Ok, so you're setting yourself up as the Patrick Moore of digital tech. Gotcha.https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Patrick_Moore> to claim that your friends are being "held captive" is to deny their agency to be in several places at onceThis may have been a defensible position about a decade ago. It ignores the reality of how people actually use the net. Counter-evidence most websites offering login with FB, Google or GH.
(DIR) Post #As8ExVlQbZTrklJwmW by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-03-17T02:41:26Z
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(2/2)Let's approach your dining metaphor from from a different angle. The legacy social web is like a world where each restaurant only serves one dish. So you can only eat out with people when they want to eat the same thing as you.What the fediverse offers is like a standard restaurant. You can sit with your friends and eat whatever you want from a range of options. Why wouldn't we want a social web like that?