How did I miss this? Talk "Build a Better Monster: Morality, Machine Learning, and Mass Surveillance" by Pinboard founder Maciej Cegłowski (ht @cynix ):
"Ideally, we can find a way to have decentralized social networks, just like we do in real life."
"Opting out of a site like Google would mean opting out of much of online life (...) [a consumer boycott] is not something we can mobilize a mass movement around."
@stefanieschulte @cynix Pinboard is one of the best birdsite accounts to follow
@ebel @cynix Totally agree! This is one of his classics:
"The Website Obesity Crisis"
http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm
Even if I'm not a gamer, I really like his analogy of the "Minecraft" web ("an open world with simple pieces that obey simple rules") versus the "Call of Duty" web ("an exquisitely produced, kind-of-but-not-really-participatory guided experience (...)").
@stefanieschulte @ebel yes, I agree, that would have been one of the next things I would have posted ;-)
