Dyslexia is a burden against normalcy, and also a superpower- able to decipher for the world Facebook's decision to rebrand itself as The Meat Corporation. Since I started reading games journalists I began learning some news. Right now (June, 2023) Amazon Twitch Proprietary Streaming Platform As A Javascript Web Service decided to only give its users 50% of the money that they are donated by fans. A skeezy online casino and related ownership group offered the equivalent proprietary web service for a smaller cut, so Amazon offered six-figure p.a. earners for them a 70% cut not to leave. Government and Corporate News Media has characterised this as Totally Normal Financial Negotiations same as sports stars engage in. "The internet has achieved what street gangsters never could- putting a porn shop and a loan shark in every livingroom" Amazon has not done something newly bad; they have always always been the same entity as nasty gambling casino backers. I remember a while ago when insufficiently profitable/unpornographic Google Alphabet Corporation YouTube users were kicked off and over to PornHub corporation (a child of that one guy/group that owns the majority of pornography-themed internet pornography) for their videos about the effectiveness of armor relative to swords or bullets. Birdsite's disintegration, FleeIt's fall, Meat Corporation, the Gulag (now Alphabet Corporation). This has been a promising time for liberation usage-alike web services such as Mastodon for Bird/Meat Corporations, and now Lemmy for Fleeit (and it turned out the Gulag was just linking people to Fleeit owned content anyway). So we are fortunate that SDF is offering mastodon.sdf.org, and now SDF Chatter- lemmy.sdf.org. Aside from noncommercialisation of the internet, a resiliency SDF brings is that they can preserve provided service across ~ backend providers. So if mastodon succeeds in tilting too much for evil profiteers, SDF could bring its inhabitants something else. Lemmy similarly. On the other hand in my heart of hearts I absolutely vibrate to the XWindows gopher over on ~club (where I too now also am). We were ircing about my experiences on Mastodon- I had Mastodon Unfollowed some people as a response to them Mastodon Unfollowing me. Rather than commiserate with me, XWindows pointed out that there is no way I am successfully maintaining the 300 friendships implied by my Mastodon. In fact I deliberately go through my Mastodon Follows list and explicitly check up on everyone, but this isn't a very conventional friendship, and even this becomes a little difficult, and arbitrarily filters time towards mastodon users. I asked ams about Fleeit - he coined their name - in the context of SDF Chatter lemmy becoming available. Fleeit users of the LISP fleeit are looking for a new community base- and I am supporting lemmy.sdf.org/c/lisp - but ams pointed out ams was not a Fleeit user, and doesn't intend to use a Fleeitalike. I was also always against participating on Fleeit in principle to, but then I'm actually against the web protocol as such. The ActivityPub w3 social group had been a ray of sunshine that passed through the consortium kind of under the radar, and we have Christine (guileful schemer) from ActivityPub and the Spritely Institute making a sort of internetworked indie game universe. Chris (different person- of chicken scheme, not guile) tells me of their secret work on social internet still in the shadows. I'm a gopher first and always, though unless you count all my programming which is secretly gopher-oriented, it seems like I got bitten by The Mastodon by how I spend my time recently. So- disintegration of the Amazon Web Services and Fleeits and Birdsites is excellent, with their erstwhile Users finding more liberation themed web softwares. This is a backdrop to a future where the hacker community of the MIT CADR haven't been commercialised away and quickly cannibalised for a night's sustenance in the first AI winter snowfall. A world where lisp aliens and gophers and whatever the anthropomorphisation of gemini is-es roam and frolick in sm0l underground holes and creativity chaos.