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John Mark OckerbloomJMarkOckerbloom@mastodon.social
Sep 22, 2026, 11:30 AM
"We have waited thirty years for the cyberlibertarian future to arrive and produce the promised harmonious community. It's time to face the facts. It's never coming."
Mat Duggan looks back at how the assumptions and contradictions in popular 1990s Internet manifestos set us up for the Internet's current manifest failures. Mat's essay includes link to a 1997 essay by Langdon Winner pointing that out early on: https://matduggan.com/the-intolerable-hypocrisy-of-cyberlibertarianism/
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John Mark OckerbloomJMarkOckerbloom@mastodon.social
Sep 22, 2026, 11:32 AM
Mat doesn't talk about them much in the post, but a lot of other folks outside tech''s Privileged Demographics have also been pointing out similar problems for a long time. Not listening to them has also been a big contributing factor to our current problems.
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Oblomovoblomov@sociale.network
Sep 23, 2026, 11:45 AM
@JMarkOckerbloom (heck, even among the privileged a lot of us saw the fascism inherent in those manifestos)
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rude Goldberg machinedngrs@chaos.social
Sep 23, 2026, 12:57 PM
@JMarkOckerbloom
> Characteristic of this way of thinking is a tendency to conflate the activities of freedom seeking individuals with the operations of enormous, profit seeking business firms.
Really hits the nail on the head. I'll namedrop these four words: Linux foundation decentralized trust.
If you follow the money of this particular endeavor - 1/
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rude Goldberg machinedngrs@chaos.social
Sep 23, 2026, 12:58 PM
@JMarkOckerbloom without the need for a tin foil hat, the hyperlinks are on their very own project page (albeit cloaked in a shell consortium, which I'd argue is intentional) you'll end up at accenture (and other giants). 2/
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rude Goldberg machinedngrs@chaos.social
Sep 23, 2026, 1:30 PM
@JMarkOckerbloom paper trail:
1. https://www.firstperson.network/white-paper ("collaboration between Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust (LFDT), Ayra Association, ...")
2. https://ayra.forum/members/
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