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@koalie @w3c Because the @w3c is the standards body of surveillance capitalism. It is Google. It is Facebook. It is Yahoo! It is SoftBank… it is funded by surveillance capitalists and legitimises and helps perpetuate surveillance capitalism. I’m not sure what exactly about that isn’t clear.

@aral W3C standards are simultaneously maybe useful but also devised by some of the absolute worst companies on the internet. ActivityPub appears to have been an oddity in which the big corps withdrew leaving only the hackers, because they assumed (possibly correctly) that federated social was not in their business interests.