@_elena Came across yesterday with my first thread on Mastodon, in which a techbro was proudly mocking others for not liking his LLM app making a summary of Mastodon posts without users consent of course. 🤬

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Whenever I read something about "crytpo", I substitute the word "criminal" and it makes it much easier to understand.

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I sure great things could be done for the Fediverse with that level of funding though.

Where the money comes from is as important as the amount though.

@_elena @lisamelton guess how many millions threads.net has quietly raised from FAANG companies—mostly F tho.

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"Can you imagine Mastodon raising 100 MILLION dollars from a crypto VC fund..."

Well *I* can imagine it!

@_elena Someone suggested that the vague "and other interactions" very likely means people's DMs and honestly I think they're probably right because "posts, likes, and comments" kind of covers everything else...

And that would be everything since like a year ago — at least.

@_elena I'm pretty sure the WHOLE of the Fedi does not meet 100M costs in 10 years

Combined

@_elena@mastodon.social I mean, I won't use BSKY EVER. I'm happy it exists for those that choose to. But we're going to keep seeing this over and over and over again. But I'm also happy because more folks that choose to use other platforms takes power away from Big Tech.

I think things like this show folks that BSKY is NOT the same as Mastodon or the fediverse in general. But I think most won't care and for those that DO care, do they care enough to move AGAIN?

And if they do, we know they won't be going to Twitter. Maybe a few will run their own whatever in the Fediverse or some will be empowered to build something themselves and make it better and AP is the only way to go really imo.

No matter what, thank you ALL for joining us on the #Fediverse because the ABOVE is the ONLY alternative that Capitalism sees and I'm happy to have REAL choice.

@_elena This is disappointing. I hope the best for BlueSky, but I have a bad feeling this is going to come back to haunt them.

@_elena "Open social infrastructure" - Haha, nice bullshit term.

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How many cats can get for this?

@_elena they aren't investing this kind of money if there's not a path to more money... People are the only thing of value on the platform... It's the same crap all over again with what people think is a prettier bow.

@_elena Russian oligarchs ?? https://www.dw.com/en/what-do-xs-alleged-ties-to-russian-oligarchs-mean-for-musk/a-70088598

@_elena I mean, I run a mastodon, I'd surely not forget to disclose that!