Hi Corinna, I can help with that! The podcast version comes with a transcript: https://dot-social.simplecast.com/episodes/eugen-rochko/transcript Does this help?
Meta has serious ties to the oil industry.
The oil industry funds anti-democracy movements using "investments" in tech.
Larry Ellison (Oracle) & Saudi Arabia
https://www.arabianbusiness.com/industries/technology/428254-larry-ellison-oracle-to-launch-four-gulf-data-centres-within-15-months
https://www.oracle.com/sa/artificial-intelligence/larry-ellison-cloudworld-genai-strategy/
Sergey Brin & Larry Page (Google) & MBS
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/07/heres-a-look-at-who.html
Musk (Twitter) & bin Talal
https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/info-tech/social-media/musk-secures-over-7-billion-funding-from-investors-including-larry-ellison/article65385117.ece
Zuckerberg (Meta) & Koch
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/zuckerberg-and-koch-groups-ally-to-clear-eligible-criminal-records/2018/11/14/b28dafb0-e841-11e8-b8dc-66cca409c180_story.html
https://apnews.com/article/elections-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-d034c4c1f5a9fa3fb02aa9898493c708
https://archive.thinkprogress.org/facebook-fact-checker-koch-climate-deniers-f5288be4c3f9/
https://catvalente.substack.com/p/mark-fking-zuckerberg-is-not-your
https://www.wsj.com/articles/zuckerberg-facebook-meta-election-2020-georgia-loeffler-cato-money-11641422429
@Gargron @mike great conversation, thank you! BTW I suggest you post a link to your Patreon account so people can easily find where they can support your efforts.
As for those using Mastodon and “wondering” if their posts are completely secure? Well duh, if you want that, I doubt you should be using any social media esp not ones run by corporate entities whose business model is to Hoover up as much info as possible about you…
THANKS FOR GIVING USERS AN ALTERNATIVE SOCIAL WEB EXPERIENCE!
@Gargron Sounds great! What would be the best way to contact you for an interview request?
@mike the main thing that I learned from this episode is that there is someone on the planet even more enthusiastic about ActivityPub than I am.
@Gargron great podcast! Could you share a link to the blog posts you mentioned, which explain ActivityPub with Ruby?
@Gargron @mike@flipboard.social What an inspiring and joyful conversation. Thanks!