🫧 socialcoding.. @smallcircles@social.coop
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I see the announcement by a commercial marketing agency of a venture capital based app store joining the fediverse.

Is the we have capable of avoiding as it grows and attracts an increasing number of corporations, who make it their market?

Is our landscape resistant to corporate capture and eventual takeover and domination? Just like the Corporate Web, also decentralized.

There are nice niches on the web, like a bloggosphere, bulletin boards, and news readers, that all still exist. But web as a whole is predominantly corporate, arguably not commons based, for the people by the people.

Social experience design defines "commons based" as "where people are in control of their future on a path of healthy evolution and natural growth". A core principle is being sustainable at all times, and timely acknowledge and mitigate risks.

Is fediverse commons based? Did we cocreate the Future of Social networking?

Nicolas Fressengeas @fresseng@universites.social
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@smallcircles🫧 socialcoding..

I almost answered yes. No one can hurt us. This is the answer I feel good, but it needs to carefully take advantage of it. An example is Thread, which tried, or faked to try, to join the Fediverse. At least Meta tried to take advantage of it.

So yes, decentralisation is a strength. It will not do everything though.

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