People Mastodon

I'm on the web since 90s and I saw this unroll first hand. The social media gave people immense power to organize and validate each other and it took a while for the billionaires to catch up but once they learned of this power they had no choice but to oppose it. They succeeded and now we generally treat social media as net negative and fight "the woke" for them using our own resources.

It's not a unique, new problem. This what happens with every almost every new technology which starts as legit useful tool that gets captured by bad actors. This is why decentralization and societal hedging is important - we must move quickly, broadly and embrace new tech before the big battleship of doom turns towards us. Guerilla warfare on the bleeding edge is the best path forward!

Thanks for coming to my ted talk 🙏

Edit: actually a very relevant article just dropped on the verge that illustrates this through Epstein emails and how they were coordinating against #metoo movement https://www.theverge.com/tech/874721/epstein-thiel-musk-trump-metoo