Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

Anyway, that all is exceptionally terse, but this is also why I'm kind of an optimist here.

The worst impulses by people in power (bigger than tech bro billionaires) are likely to push to fix this to keep their investments afloat. And as with communication standards before the internet, the players and the game remain mostly the same.

This isn't out of the goodness of anyone's heart. It's, quite literally, so Elon and Zuck don't blow up service investment and spying efforts overnight and losing a bunch of eyeballs. Consumers putting pressure on lawmakers helps, too.

And it doesn't fix everything, not by a long shot. But in a strange twist, it does make things easier for consumers suffering at the end of these cycles, especially when they happen all at once.

So I've seen lots of links back to Cory's essay since it was written (see last boost). Thing is, there's a fix in the form of common carrier law.

Basically, data portability and interop standards are likely to get laws passed in California and the EU. And there'll be support from state actors (China, etc) on those too, so they don't lose their investments when a service locks the API and folds in the last stage of the enshittification cycle.

@KayOhtie @Yarideki Rarararararara

There's such a huge difference in how this is being handled between well-meaning-but-ineffective admins that want to avoid confrontation vs admins who are survivors and Have Seen Some Shit. Especially folks who saw this before during the LJ days or have seen what happened to XMPP.

Listen to the survivors, folks. Facebook doesn't give a flying fuck about Fedi, they want to push everyone back to their platform and destroy competition. We've seen this before, we'll see this again, and the only way to fight it is to deny them a platform before they gain traction.

Many of us are here because big social media platforms failed us, actively abused our personal info, became increasingly hostile spaces to queer and LGBTQ+ folk, and killed services that allowed us to manage attention and administrate our own spaces -- in favor of ad revenue and maximizing ROI. Fuck that, and fuck the notion of them forcing Fedi to capitulate to their demands.

I have absolute respect for fediadmins that are working very hard against the troll push on this one. Keep fighting the good fight. 💜