@esvrld@octodon.social idk, I think there's revolutionary potential in tech, just not in... this particular techbro interpretation of "revolution", which somehow always comes down to "yeah we make the network decentralized and then it'll sort out itself right?" without any further thought to governance or power dynamics or *what problem it is actually supposed to solve*
and so it becomes about the tech itself, and *just* about the tech, no intersectional awareness at all, and that makes it trivially easy to co-opt by established players. especially since aforementioned techbros are always weirdly receptive to "inviting businesses to the community"
the whole IPFS project was honestly super sketchy very early on already, even before all the Filecoin shit - it promoted itself as "the permanent web", I pointed out that this misled people into thinking it'd magically persist files and would cause people to lose data, and they just did... nothing about that
(and of course, lots of people ended up losing data)
@esvrld@octodon.social whoops, forgot the last bit of my post:
for tech to really have revolutionary potential, it needs to be built in a *supportive* role by starting with actual needs that eg. marginalized communities have, involving those communities in the process and really working on finding good solutions for them, regardless of what those solutions end up being
not starting with "oh I guess this would be neat to build, let's see if we can convince anybody that this is useful to them"
