People CRAVE big tech. They’re not victims of abuse or ignorance, they’re willing participants that would rather be enslaved by a corporation than use any collaborative effort.
I don’t disagree, but this is why I find it so exasperating how so much of the tech world, including the open source community in general, refuses to understand this in terms other than a nihilistic distaste for human beings in general.
What you are saying is that the tech specs that bluesky defenders listed in my face from the beginning, all along the continuum of bluesky diehards to people on the fence considering the tech… all of that was NONSENSE from the perspective of evaluating the impact that the technology would have because the problem is political not technological.
I need to emphasize, that from the beginning most of the Bluesky support I saw was from technology minded people who are VERY smart at engineering systems and software but have the political awareness of an overconfident baby and refused to at the time look squarely in the eyes of what makes silicon such a globally hurtful force.
Now I am left wondering, as I thought I would from the beginning, why we wasted all that time on handwringing about how maybe this abusive relationship could work out with Bluesky. This time it will be different I swear I changed I won’t abuse you for profits now I promise…
Look I am glad y’all learned your lessons… hopefully you did? This isn’t just about useful idiots learning way too late into the game that Bluesky was always going to turn out like Twitter though, this is about why the tech community at large refuses to address political questions in an adult and mature manner that doesn’t sweep anything that can’t be easily categorized in digital, binary terms under the rug because it is uncomfortable to talk about in a professional environment.
Your nihilism is part of the same coin that has allowed companies like Microsoft to profit off genocide in Gaza while only a meager handful of Microsoft employees speak up and are thrown out and ostracized for their unprofessional behavior.
Stand up for your beliefs, stand up for humanity, don’t cede a narrative that this universe is cynical to them without contesting it and demanding more evidence. I will not be convinced people are as generally bad as the ruling class wants me to believe, it is always a lie. Part of that for me is not letting them convince me people want this suffering because you can twist people’s intentions, fears and motivations so easily into destructive ends… evidence you hold in front of me of people behaving in evil ways only illuminates the capacity of violence to spread like a contagion, it doesn’t convince me humanity at large desires the state it is being subjected to.
Your comment is extremely weird because I did not defend, expect anything or debated Bluesky tech. To the contrary, I’m specifically pointing out that Bluesky was obviously bad and Mastodon should’ve been chosen instead.
My nihilism wasn’t challenged, it was confirmed. People chose the bad option, they chose it again, and will choose another bad option in the future.
I don’t disagree, but this is why I find it so exasperating how so much of the tech world, including the open source community in general, refuses to understand this in terms other than a nihilistic distaste for human beings in general.
What you are saying is that the tech specs that bluesky defenders listed in my face from the beginning, all along the continuum of bluesky diehards to people on the fence considering the tech… all of that was NONSENSE from the perspective of evaluating the impact that the technology would have because the problem is political not technological.
I need to emphasize, that from the beginning most of the Bluesky support I saw was from technology minded people who are VERY smart at engineering systems and software but have the political awareness of an overconfident baby and refused to at the time look squarely in the eyes of what makes silicon such a globally hurtful force.
Now I am left wondering, as I thought I would from the beginning, why we wasted all that time on handwringing about how maybe this abusive relationship could work out with Bluesky. This time it will be different I swear I changed I won’t abuse you for profits now I promise…
Look I am glad y’all learned your lessons… hopefully you did? This isn’t just about useful idiots learning way too late into the game that Bluesky was always going to turn out like Twitter though, this is about why the tech community at large refuses to address political questions in an adult and mature manner that doesn’t sweep anything that can’t be easily categorized in digital, binary terms under the rug because it is uncomfortable to talk about in a professional environment.
Your nihilism is part of the same coin that has allowed companies like Microsoft to profit off genocide in Gaza while only a meager handful of Microsoft employees speak up and are thrown out and ostracized for their unprofessional behavior.
Stand up for your beliefs, stand up for humanity, don’t cede a narrative that this universe is cynical to them without contesting it and demanding more evidence. I will not be convinced people are as generally bad as the ruling class wants me to believe, it is always a lie. Part of that for me is not letting them convince me people want this suffering because you can twist people’s intentions, fears and motivations so easily into destructive ends… evidence you hold in front of me of people behaving in evil ways only illuminates the capacity of violence to spread like a contagion, it doesn’t convince me humanity at large desires the state it is being subjected to.
Your comment is extremely weird because I did not defend, expect anything or debated Bluesky tech. To the contrary, I’m specifically pointing out that Bluesky was obviously bad and Mastodon should’ve been chosen instead.
My nihilism wasn’t challenged, it was confirmed. People chose the bad option, they chose it again, and will choose another bad option in the future.