Matthias Ott
@matthiasott@mastodon.social
“The internet’s town square should never have been one specific website with its own specific rules and incentives. It should have been, and should be, the web itself.
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The web is wide open again, for the first time in what feels like forever.”
https://inessential.com/2022/11/13/after_twitter
HT @tchambers
@matthiasott @tchambers 100%! and more importantly, it has been open all along. people have been chugging away building things for the open web, even in the shadow of corporate centralized services that threatened to suck all our attention away forever.
The web's always been wide open, it's just that people congregated in the places that seemed 'better' until they slowly realised there were other, better, options available without having one's personal data bought and sold at the whim of very rich people.
I'm happy for all that's happening now with this, but can't help but feel a little bit of schadenfreude, because thousands of open-source developers, as well as many other privacy-minded people have been saying exactly this for close to 20 years now.
Weird to take the people who wants more bans as the advocates for an open square. You could say maturity or more social compact but it’s really odd to say the people who decide that deadnaming is a bannable offense are the ones who support a more open square.
@matthiasott @brentsimmons @tchambers
You mean like Usenet? It’s still around - see https://www.privacyaffairs.com/usenet-guide/
You can find archives of my own websites going back as early as 1998. You can find my correspondence (mostly Usenet) going back to when I was first learning about the Internet in the late 1980s.
