Mad Villain on Nostr: I’m here for the long haul because ultimately I feel optimistic about the fedi ...

I’m here for the long haul because ultimately I feel optimistic about the fedi because we haven’t really tapped into what’s possible as most projects are just imitating centralized platforms. It’s still the beginning of the beginning.

But many devs when given total freedom to create literally anything are choosing to emulate the people they admire, which is usually some incompetent white dude that had the fortune to get resources they didn’t have or earn.

The current state of the fedi is an undeniable reminder of the limits of that kind of thinking, highlighted by many open source projects trying to copy features from Bluesky to ‘compete’ rather than leveraging the freedom Activity Pub gives to make projects that corporate spaces cannot imitate.

But we gotta be honest about why many voices here feel the need to be comparable to centralized platforms while simultaneously claiming to be alternatives with less features, centralized and unilateral leadership and unending understanding and empathy for truly awful communities.

Are we really trying to better or just trying open source oligarchy?

Because the problem has never been has never been tech.