the brand’s engineers made it next to impossible to open the frame that contains all the parts

VanMoof’s creators fancied their company to be like Apple — creating unique products that would spawn its own ecosystem

Well there we go, nothing to add that.

Federation is the most natural form of human society. We’ve developed to exist in small communities of a couple dozen people. Some groups talk to each other, some don’t, and every one has its own identity. Sometimes a member leaves and gets assimilated into another group.

Existing in large communities with thousands and millions of members - other species do that, like ants.

Ok weird analogy, but I think that’s the gist of it really.

Uniform places like Facebook, with one queen/master, perfectly organised, never really seeing outside, being just a cog - that’s a life of an ant.

Small, agile communities, sometimes a bit messy and complex, especially when it comes to outside interactions - we can handle that, because of our huge human brains.

It’s time for moving away from being ants back to being humans.

There’s a whole https://fanaticus.social/ instance for sports

Meta: We’re launching it now with no ads or plans, then we’ll figure out what to do once we hit a billion users

People: Ooh but Meta may not be all bad, let’s just wait and see!

I mean, Meta is totally freely admitting they’re just playing the good guy now and will hit hard once they gain monopoly and can do whatever the fuck they want. How much more clear does it have to get?