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JWZ: "I prefer to meet people where they are" says reasonable-sounding white dude holding court at a table in the back of a Nazi Bar, redux. (www.jwz.org)
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It's Cory. This time the guy holding court is Cory.

BTW, the Kickstarter for Pixelfed and Loops, the actually-open, ActivityPub based clones of Instagram and TikTok, just hit $35,000 in its first 13 hours. The creator of Mastodon just ceded control to a new non-profit. That's how you do it. By spending money to build free things for the public interest out in the open, not by tithing your money, labor and attention directly to VC-funded for-profit corporations.

For those who don’t know jwz, among other things, you have him to thank for Firefox/Mozilla’s existence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh no, but those poor Blue Sky users, when the service becomes even more terrible they might lose all their posts. We must save them from their own bad decisions!"

i wonder why it's so hard for people to understand this about social media with significant financial backing; it literally happens every 👏 single 👏 time 👏 .

and here i am bieng the pot that's calling the kettle black since i did tiktok up until monday. lol

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

At least you learned the lesson.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

it's a lesson i've learned many times since the days of bbs & icq; but it keeps catching me off guard.