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Who owns ActivityPub? No one.
Not trying to be that guy, but ActivityPub is technically owned by the W3C. I agree with the sentiment of your post regarding the free nature of AP.
I’m not sure I believe that any more than I believe any of those ridiculous techbros owned those ugly apes
AP is just a protocol. Like HTTP. The IETF owns the HTTP protocol. Anyone is free to implement it, but they decide what HTTP is and how it evolves over time.
I don’t believe many people implementing AP listen to W3C. W3C can say they own it, but I want to see practical evidence, not just a flag.
By that definition no one owns any open standard. Either way this was an academic argument to start with, so it’s not worth belaboring.
The specification yes. But can they silence voices they don’t like, and amplify those they do? No? Then no problem.
They don’t have to if the transmission lines are owned by frontier/Verizon/comcast
You’re right! This just reeks of Big ActivityPub propaganda!
Seems like there are an awful lot of tankies here though
Sure but watch this
Tankies suck! Stalin was a monster. China is an undemocratic oligarchy. Luigi Mangione should go shoot Kim Jong Un.
See? That’s why the fediverse is better.
Yes that’s cool! But if we were in a community ruled by people who were to disagree with what you wrote you would be banned and censored the same. And some communities are too large and well in place for their userbase to be moved.
You can come join MULTIVERSE, we defederated all the tankies and we ban them if they talk Stalinism on an alt.
And what do you do for nazis?
Defed and ban
If not tankies, then who rules this community? I’ll put it to the test. My guess is that they’ll only ban me if I say something truly horrible, not merely “people who disagree”.
Enshittification is all about next quarter, not reliable income. Eventually it gets so shitty that the users move.
You’re lucky you’re not in the wrong instance!
<shakes tankie fist>
Me. It’s mine
an oligarch! GET’EM!
You own it too, motherfucker!
ah shit
*runs away*
Ah the ol’ lemmy switcheroo.
grab my self hosted server, I’m going in!
…
(…someone give me another instance of this joke to link to.)
Get them too then!
The USA turning into Russia and China.
Y’all, who do you think owned the news media before this latest batch of billionaires owned it? Who do you think it owner it before them?
Hint: the rich have owned the news media in Western countries since before the fucking Opium Wars. It’s been this way since China was a peasant country and Russia was a Tsarist feudal society.
Plutocracy
Factually incorrect. All of them are worth $0 at best.
I dunno Bernie. The use of the word oligarchy makes me “feel a little queasy.” But I guess I agree with you.
No mention of Oracle?
Oracle probably doesn’t mean anything to the typical person so Bernie didn’t mention it, but Oracle owns a ton of shit which would have made ole Evil Larry an oligarch even before all these media company takeovers.
Is that a media outlet?
Name would be fitting. They’re a law firm pretending to be a software company.
They’re a CIA operation pretending to be a software company that is actually a law firm
Of course it is. And is also about oligarchs giving orders to the media they control to not call them by that name.
Yes, now realize every establishment Democrat is also paid off by these demons too. Grassroots progressives or RIP the system, I have no other choice.
If you’re playing a game by the rules your opponent not only writes, but also actively breaks, and cheats, you’re going to lose.
It’s been a problem ever since the Industrial Revolution, which oligarchs supplanted the aristocracy while class conflict remained. There were attempts at changing the status quo, or overthrowing it and replacing with a different system, there’s so much discussion and debate, but actual success of the masses – if we must have inclusion of those oppressed regardless of race, creed or faith – has yet to be seen.
One thing is for certain: this time peaceful and legal options are starting to be exhausted of their energy, as the moneyed enemy isn’t going to yield easily.
I love this style of artwork on old political cartoons
Average American: “That won’t stop me because I can’t read! [Trump approval rating continues going lower].”
Eat the rich.
You remember the Turducken craze? TIme for a Mubezuckison.
When the hell did Musk get to 800?
This is nuts! I blinked and it happened
If one ship cost is one bilion dollars(Elon once bought a yacht for one bilion dollars) he could fund all ships for Achaemenid Empire for Battle of Salamis.
Battle of Salamis with super yachts!
More an example of plutocracy, but definitely an example of both.
Unless he’s specifically talking about corporate holdings, then it’s oligopoly, not oligarchy.
It can be considered a form of oligarchy (rule by the few) where the ruling few are wealthy.
Always was.
There’s a word for this: It’s called Gleichschaltung
