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Liked Bodil (@bodil@treehouse.systems)
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Everyone: in the future, we could imagine every news outlet running their own fediverse instance, what a wonderful future that would be! BBC: *becomes the first major news outlet to launch an official fedi instance* Everyone, ten seconds later: we are fediblocking the BBC for being too right wing.

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Liked Rob: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (@RobW@iosdev.space)
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Great that the BBC is trying out Mastodon. I really hope it works out for them and they stick around, with extra accounts, after their 6 month trial. But still in their replies people are trying to explain how to mastodon to them. What is it with this place that people feel the need to explain what they’re doing wrong all the time? Just be cool.

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Liked a stinky ox 🐂 (@llamasoft_ox@toot.wales)
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Started reading a webpage with an article about the relentless ongoing enshittification. Before I'd scrolled down more than a page or two I saw the lines of text progressively start to fade out and thought "on *this* article? surely not?" But yeah, it faded to nothing and the fucking "Subscribe to read more" box scrolled on. Fox ache. 🐂

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Liked The Seven Voyages Of Steve (@sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)
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Big public companies that rose up on the back of the free, open web over the last 20y want to wall it off, make it proprietary. Of course they do. They benefited from openness on the way up, but now they ARE the incumbents they previously disrupted, they want to stop others doing the same to them. We cheer for plucky upstarts, but then they simply become what they railed against. The answer is always openness, all the time. And flipping the bird to incumbents, even if they used to be cool.