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… Or, in what a previous head of public policy at Mozilla told me while we were chatting before our talks at a data protection conference:

“Aral, we’re just another Silicon Valley tech company, I don’t understand why you’re holding us to a such a higher standard.”

When I finally managed to pick my jaw off the floor the only retort I could manage was: “But that’s not what you tell people.”

3/3

#Mozilla #fediverse #SiliconValley #ventureCapital #BigTech


RT @GianlucaSgueo@twitter.com

Have you seen @Info_Activism@twitter.com new project '#GAFAM Empire'? It's amazing. They look at all the known acquisitions conducted by 5 #bigtech companies (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft) from their first one to the end of summer of 2022 https://gafam.theglassroom.org/#landscape-of-acquisitions

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/GianlucaSgueo/status/1605568631244349440


When posting stats about the number of people (not “users”) joining the fediverse (not “Mastodon”), please also post about the number of instances.

If 400,000,000 people join BigTech.social tomorrow, that’s not a win. That’s how you recreate Twitter.

So let’s focus on what matters. Sure it‘s great that the fediverse is becoming more popular but the character of that popularity matters. How it scales matters. Avoiding corporate capture matters.

#BigTech #fediverse #scale #focus


THIS great sentiment
+
maybe we ALL take a serious & sober look at how ABSENCE of LAW over past 18 years (not bad law, shitty or law unfair law... no law)
in:
• #internet
• #mobile #social
• #privacy
• #surveillance
• #AI #ML
• #data #governance

This is a massive #mastodon #fediverse opportunity we can collectively capitalize on before #SiliconValley #BigTech #VC carpet baggers arrive.

#my2cents

@klonick@davew@craignewmark@jeffjarvis@daphnehk@qjurecic@blaine @@profcarroll


Seeing Big Tech folks jump into the fediverse and – without so much as a “how do you do, fellow kids?” – roll up their sleeves to write the rules, dream up commercial services, and pontificate about how advertising should run on it. 👀

#fediverse #BigTech #corporateCapture #warning


Is an open secure instant messaging protocol not what is needed to allow any messaging app to communicate with any other, and to break the monopoly of Big Tech?