It's nice to see an article that is just interesting. Although trying to model an environment of extreme freedom as 'feudal' is one of the big philosophic mistakes in the current discourse. Although it is easy to establish that the majors are very sticky they're only sticky as long as they do a good job. Groups like AWS or Google are actually pretty vulnerable - the US right wing looked like it was about to build a complete alternative internet for a while there until the management in tech relented and allowed them to speak up in public. Places like AWS had to pull their head in and the spin offs from that like Rumble or Truth Social haven't gone away, they just partially marginalised when the censorship backed off. That isn't how feudal revolts work in my understanding; typically peasants just got squished by better armed, armoured and organised soldier classes.
delusional•11m ago
You worldview is incredibly foreign to me, but I'll try to engage fairly with it.
> the US right wing looked like it was about to build a complete alternative internet for a while there
This would seem to imply that the established internet, what we had before this relenting, was somehow left wing. Is that an accurate description of your view? When did this relenting take place?
> they just partially marginalised when the censorship backed off.
Is it your position that Truth Social (the social network started by the current president of the united states) is currently a marginalized space?
> That isn't how feudal revolts work in my understanding; typically peasants just got squished by better armed, armoured and organised soldier classes.
I think it's interesting that you posit this as a fight between the "peasants" and the "soliders". I'm assuming, to make sense of your analogy, that the "peasants" in this case is the current president of the united states and Elon Musk. the "soliders" would then be "Jeff Bezos" and "Sundar Pichai"
palmfacehn•1m ago
>This would seem to imply that the established internet, what we had before this relenting, was somehow left wing.
I would omit the left-wing characterization as a debatable generalization. Perhaps it would be better described as the specific platforms being opposition partisans. If I had to characterize that opposition broadly, I would reach for a descriptor like establishment Globalist.
3np•23m ago
Building the software you rely on from source by default is one way to reduce the impact these events have on you and shift the power dynamic. If you're installing binaries/images from a vendor (free or otherwise), transitioning to a fork may be an undertaking and a sweaty risk-assessment.
Switching your existing build-infra to sync sources from a new remote should be a snap.
Also no major need to hound maintainers to ship a release or merge that neglected bugfix or feature you desperately need - just cherry-pick it.
positron26•23m ago
Without commercializing the non-contributor users, they have really no leverage in any of the relationships. Connecting them together by pooling their financial power to pull in contributors creates a real force to resist rug pulls a la Val-key. That is one of the kinds of thinking behind PrizeForge and why I'm implementing bare-minimum Postgres backups today because we're a fledgling startup and need Rust engineers: https://positron.solutions/careers
roenxi•46m ago
delusional•11m ago
> the US right wing looked like it was about to build a complete alternative internet for a while there
This would seem to imply that the established internet, what we had before this relenting, was somehow left wing. Is that an accurate description of your view? When did this relenting take place?
> they just partially marginalised when the censorship backed off.
Is it your position that Truth Social (the social network started by the current president of the united states) is currently a marginalized space?
> That isn't how feudal revolts work in my understanding; typically peasants just got squished by better armed, armoured and organised soldier classes.
I think it's interesting that you posit this as a fight between the "peasants" and the "soliders". I'm assuming, to make sense of your analogy, that the "peasants" in this case is the current president of the united states and Elon Musk. the "soliders" would then be "Jeff Bezos" and "Sundar Pichai"
palmfacehn•1m ago
I would omit the left-wing characterization as a debatable generalization. Perhaps it would be better described as the specific platforms being opposition partisans. If I had to characterize that opposition broadly, I would reach for a descriptor like establishment Globalist.