Fediverse

Twitter should be obliterated from existence, as all comercial social media should be. It might once have played an important rol on bringing together communities of opressed people, but beliving that it's a tool for emancipation is deceving yourself, at best.

It's not the first text I read that says something along those lines and that makes me sad. Don't forget that things like Twitter promote hate speach in the name of money. (Or instagram knowing how harmfull it is for teenagers and not giving a crap...)

One must be pretty naïve to belive things like that, use decentralised plataforms owned and operated by the people.

This has nothing to do with ethics, the difference, if ethics can be argued, is the ethics of the one who provides a social network, which in the centralized ones of a big company converges to zero, while in the decentralized ones like Mastodon, it depends on the one who provides a instance, very different between them, there will be unethical and others more. The rest is up to the users themselves.

Today I noticed this : https://blacktwitter.io/about Hopefully that will help more Black people to move away from Twitter

tl;dr Mastodon is apparently unethical because one particular community likes Twitter more. What a bunch of nonsense.

Apparently "ethics" is now "staying in a cesspool because other people prefer it".

Fuck that noise. If that's the new definition of "ethics" I'll be the most unethical motherfucker alive.

It should be noted that the linked article concluded that, in the authors' opinion, moving to Mastodon IS ethical, despite vasuous issues.and concerns which the article catalogs.

Though it would seem we overwhelming and vehemently disagree with those that suggest there might be unethical to abandon them on the birdsite, we also should not just dismiss those who do think or feel that. Especially marginalized people trying to express the good thing they found.

It seems pretty clear that most humans do not prioritize "freedom" very highly compared to comfort and familiarity. And I can see a logic where, unfortunaltely, marginalized people whose lives tend towards experiencing more discomfort than most would be especially resistance to letting go of what little comfort they have found.

And the network effect is biggest boss to overcome (as all the vc feuled corps know very well).

All we can do is keep trying to make a place that is useful enough and iteratively more comfortable. If we care about these people, and the concept of decentralized freedom.for all. And we need to seriously listen and consider, and maybe even compromise, as the linked article has tried to do.

uh... what