This is a sobering and important read for all of us who care deeply about the future of democracy, free speech and power – that is: the future of the internet – and think that federation is the way to go to secure it.
He has some very compelling arguments for why it's not. At the same time his reassurance that it's not even needed doesn't seem very sound.
So, then, what is the solution?
Please read and think carefully about this. https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/
@forteller interesting read of vertical/horizontal thinking dressed up in the language of tech https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/ #ideology matters as we all have a "world view" coherent or incoherent that shapes every choice we make. And the tech we use everyday is a product of a very small number of people's ideology... this is currently a HUGE problem.
Of course both views have limited and blatantly wrong assumptions threading through them. This is very human.
"replacing the pillars of the internet" as he says in the article the #openweb has always been peer to peer. So stepping away from the #dotcon or #closedweb would be a less snappy but more truthy title.
The other one is more honest in its viewpoint #encyrpionist and control. This is a clear https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism view point.
@forteller a different reading of the same social relations. https://medium.com/tootsuite/replacing-the-pillars-of-the-internet-235836580a0e when you look at them side by side you see that they are pushing different "political/social" agendas. This has been labeled for 100's of years as ideology and much coherent stuff has been written on this subject, worth a look https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideology