Hey techcrunch, its not "consumers", its people. Lets stop this ugly, supposedly business savvy but just lazy and wrong, consumerization of humanity. On the ma

Hey techcrunch, its not "consumers", its people. Lets stop this ugly, supposedly business savvy but just lazy and wrong, consumerization of humanity. On the main point, the fediverse is the future irrespective what Mozilla does but it is great news to have such an entity help accelerate developments and exploring the phase space or possibilities. Decentralized social networking is really just Web 3.0, the next phase of RSS and much more. Focusing on mastodon, the dysfunction of politics as reflected on Twitter/X etc is missing the point by a few parsecs. Wordpress now has an activitypub plugin. Any web platform that respects itself has one in the works. This is not exactly dot.com era giddiness but there is definetely a feel of a new window opening. Nevertheless mastodon is the server type that got early traction, it makes sense to benefit from the insights this is providing. The sad truth is that because adtech so thoroughly destroyed social media, we dont even know how to build a sane alternative. Moderation tech is definitely an area deserving an open and human-centered stack.