Tim O’Reilly: “AI has adopted colonialism as its business model”. Strong words! But he explains: “Extract resources from others and use it to enrich yourself and your customers at the expense of those whose resources you have taken, without giving much back.” Guilty as charged I would say.
If we wanted to grow the Open Social Web by a factor of 1000 -- roughly the number of users on Meta platforms today compared to, say, Mastodon -- how would we go about it? P.S. Obviously while keeping the good things we have here, and making them even better, rather than backsliding / enshittifying / ...
Hi [@_elena]( ), you obviously have gotten a lot of praise for your Fediverse video, and deservedly so. Many people commented on the sheer production quality. I want to add that your narrative is also first-class. I cannot think of anybody who has told the Fediverse story better than you have, and usually the stories being told are much worse. How did you come up with it? That's also your work, right?