meta, hachyderm, corporate capture
Heads-up for any folks on hachyderm.io: I would recommend picking a different instance, as it seems likely that it'll get defederated from quite a few places at some point.
They seem to not only be happy with corporate accounts[1], but also apparently seek to "introduce trust with corporations" [and draw them to fedi?], which uhhhh yeah no.
This is a space for people, not for corporations. Let's not repeat the errors of the FOSS community (that eventually led to near-total corporate capture of FOSS) by inviting corporations into our spaces, not even "as long as they play nice".
[1] https://github.com/hachyderm/community/blob/main/accounts/corporate-accounts.md
meta, hachyderm, corporate capture
@joepie91 I'm pretty new to Mastodon. What is the problem with having corporations in the fediverse?
As social media will always reflect society in some way, I would expect them to be part of some instance eventually. I can imagine use cases where having their helpdesk teams or money here would be useful, even.
re: meta, hachyderm, corporate capture
@stonehead I've explained the reasons a bit more here: https://social.pixie.town/@joepie91/109360136040004274
And more fundamentally, fedi doesn't need to "reflect society" at all, it's a community platform run by volunteers for their own community building and social lives. There are entire swathes of society that we'd much rather not have here at all.
The whole "must reflect society" thing is basically just Twitter's "global town square" thing, but that doesn't apply here
re: meta, hachyderm, corporate capture
@joepie91 I didn't say "must reflect" but "will reflect society". Mastodon is open source, is there anything which keeps companies from using it? And apparently Hachyderm sees possibilities - in some ways it's laudible that they at least pose conditions for companies. But this is all new to me, I think every instance will have their own considerations.
re: meta, hachyderm, corporate capture
@stonehead It's certainly possible for them to use the tech, it is open after all. But that doesn't mean that they will be accepted as part of the existing community, which is what the defederation part is about.
