Joe Crawford blogs about open web themes at XOXO:

During XOXO, Andy Baio said “Every one of you should have a home on the web not controlled by a billionaire.” Cabel Sasser recommended that we all “put up the dang portfolio.” Molly White asked us to think back to “when was the first time you thought the web was magic?”

@manton I'm an advocate of this too, but sadly, not everyone as the luxury to own their web presence, be it from a technical or money wise perspective.

@manton "People are desperate for something better. People hate censorship, shadow-banning, “the algorithm.” Twitter is full of hate speech. The Trust & Safety team was gutted. Bad actors were reinstated in the name of free speech."

Aren't these kind of two opposite goals though 😅 more vs. less moderation?

@manton

"People are desperate for something better. People hate censorship, shadow-banning, “the algorithm.” Twitter is full of hate speech. The Trust & Safety team was gutted. Bad actors were reinstated in the name of free speech."

Aren't these kind of two opposite goals though 😅 more vs. less moderation?

@mackuba.eu Yes, that’s one way to look at it. 🙂 I don’t want to speak for the author… Personally I avoid using the word censorship because it’s usually the wrong way to think about platform moderation.

@manton Well, OK, if you ask it that way. So, @seb , has sfba.social made you a billionaire yet? (I mean I guess technically I'm also supposed to ask whether you are a billionaire via other means but for better or worse my mind is just getting distracted by the Fediverse specific aspect of this).

@soaproot @manton LoL. I’m just a middle-aged normal dude with kiddos living in the bay area. I also don’t consider myself owning sfba. The team and I are just doing our best to keep it running for the community.

@seb @manton Well that plan is foiled and we'll need to look for another villain. I suppose Gargon hasn't become a billionaire out of this either, which is bad news for the conspiracy-hunting.

(More serious comment: the SFBA team does in fact keep sfba.social running and running well!)

@warner Thanks. We are really, really far away from that. 🙂