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If you’re on mastodon.social, I would highly recommend that you switch to a different server that protects its people instead of exposing them to a well-known bad actor like Facebook/Meta via Threads.
For alternatives, see: https://fedipact.veganism.social
And remember that Mastodon is not the fediverse. The fediverse is much more than just Mastodon and definitely more so than mastodon.social and Mastodon gGmbH.
He said this right after offering his service to the Whitehouse, what a friggin bootlicker
Getting large institutional actors on Fediverse is a big part of popularising the platform.
More like: is internet big because a whitehouse (among other institutional actors) has a webpage? Is email big because whitehouse (among other..) has an adress?
I'd argue yes.
Well, arguably both internet and email became popular when commercial operators were allowed operations in the second half of the 1990s.
At that point Internet had existed half a decade, and email two.
@iju @big_louse That’s when they began to be exploited for profit. Because our economic system doesn’t enable us to image futures where exploitation ad enshittification isn’t the only possible option.
That was also the point where people who weren't businessmen or university students started having access.
Though I suppose there were alternatives, like government operated tech and services like that surrounding BBC Micro.