re: meta, hachyderm, corporate capture
@jtolio@hachyderm.io Yeah, no, that's not how it works. Many people here (again, the people who have built the place to be a safe refuge) have absolutely no interest in a 'town square', and it is frankly quite privileged and rude to say "the town square is coming anyway" - it's an extremely colonialist attitude, "thanks for building this, it's ours now".
And instances are likely to respond appropriately by defederating from instances and folks who hold that view. Which means you don't have your town square anyway.
re: meta, hachyderm, corporate capture
@ratwerks @jtolio@hachyderm.io Then, as I have exhaustively repeated by now, they should be prepared to be defederated from the existing community, and that should be the end of the conversation.
re: meta, hachyderm, corporate capture
@joepie91 @jtolio
as you yourself say:
half the point of a federated network is that people can make that choice for themselves
I think anything that’s publicly accessible is vulnerable to the tragedy of the commons. I also think that some parts of the fediverse defederating from other parts does not defeat the existence of a town square.
i’ve been in the fediverse since 2017. i’ve never seen it so alive and functioning so well as the last two weeks. there will be positives and negatives; there will be folks who like what it’s becoming and folks who hate it. but it’s alive.