Not speaking up against potential centralization vectors and capture risks is extending the red carpet for big players to come in and takeover.

So much for "adoption at all costs"...

It happened to email, it happened to internet browsers, it happened to the web, it happened to social media.

It will happen to lightning if most people just roll over.

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Ok. What’s your proposal? What’s your plan?

Are you saying that unless and until each of us invokes a litany of cautionary tales each time we seek to orange pill someone that we are doing it wrong?

My proposal is low time preference: don't shill hostile convenient solutions for the sake of adoption.

This ☝️. We have to stop whoring ourselves out for new users at the expense of the objective: freedom money

There is no “we”. There are individuals and collections of individuals (projects, companies) acting in their own (hopefully enlightened) self-interest.

“Build a better mousetrap…”

IMHO the fediverse people got this right

they’re alright with instabanning any big company’s ActivityPub instance