Aral Balkan
aral@mastodon.ar.al
Meta and friends – like Mastodon and Vivaldi – form Social Web Foundation.
May I be the first to say:
Fuck the Social Web Foundation.
https://socialwebfoundation.org
I am so fucking sick of this bullshit happening over and over again. I’d say they’re useful idiots but, let’s face it, Mastodon aren’t idiots. Vivaldi aren’t idiots. They’re smart folks. They know full well what Meta is. They clearly just don’t give a shit.
#SocialWebFoundation #Meta #BigTech #surveillance #capitalism #peopleFarming
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@getimiskon @aral what happened to the linux foundation?
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gettie (
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getimiskon
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Fifi Lamoura
fifilamoura@eldritch.cafe
@aral This is how structural inequalities get perpetuated and designed (unconsciously) into new systems, business as usual. Believing and even being "one of the good guys" doesn't prevent that, it actually kinds of guarantees it. Sure, nobody likes having to deal with resistance to their ambitions but you only get closer to equality and real systemic change when you let that resistance achieve actual momentum rather than getting mad it's preventing business as usual. Actual innovation and change IS often uncomfortable, especially for those who are comfortable.
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Aral Balkan
aral@mastodon.ar.al@fifilamoura It’s definitely not unconscious on Meta’s part. They’re being legitimised to high heaven with this.
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Fifi Lamoura
fifilamoura@eldritch.cafe@aral Oh, definitely. I don't know enough about the foundation to comment on it directly but Meta should not be viewed as benign (no matter how lovely and well intentioned the employees the corporation uses to interface with a project like this is). I'd say it's hugely problematic in the face of the CEO claiming he's apolitical as a way to dodge both personal and corporate accountability. It is, of course, not an apolitical stance, merely a stance that refuses ethical responsibility.
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Evan Prodromou
evan@cosocial.ca@fifilamoura let me know if you'd like to know more! I think we talked about this project in the past but it might have had a different name then.
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