I remember folks in the web community shunning me when I first started speaking out against Big Tech – because I was criticising their friends who worked at Google, Facebook, etc. – saying I was exaggerating things.
I wonder what the same folks think now given what we know about these very same corporations, given a number of them are actively enabling a genocide.
Am I still an alarmist?
(I understand if some of you’re too busy working at one or debating the minutia of CSS syntax to reply.)
@eliasr Had to check – apparenty 12 years ago or so now. I think this – from 2012 – was one of the first talks I gave on the subject: https://www.hackshackers.com/news/2012/09/hackshackers-brighton-open-communities/
It was the talk that later became the one I gave at the RSA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldhHkVjLe7A
(And I’ve since been working on the problem and trying to formulate solutions to it, which has led me to what I’ve been working on for the last ~6 years with the Small Web) https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/
#SmallWeb #FreeIsALie #RSATalks