I spent a year posting on Facebook that I was leaving the corporate owned internet for greener pastures, explaining the problems with capital-owned communications networks and inviting everyone to escape to freedom.
They don't even hear it. Vaguely think I've left the internet entirely now to avoid being spied on, or forget that I even left and only invite me to their events though a Facebook push I don't see.
It's because they aren't ready, they don't even understand that there can be a thing without owners, feel afraid of such things if they do.
Outreach is hard because the only people with time and patience to even listen are those who have already spotted there is a problem.
Whether Instagram's Activitypub will open eyes or not I dunno, but ranting on Facebook doesn't work ;)
Keep in mind the alternative, that it's not that people aren't ready, is that people simply don't have the same values that you personally do, don't care about the fights that you personally care about, and simply have different opinions about what is important in the world.
It's like saying people aren't ready for pineapple on pizza. No, is simply that people have differences of taste and what one person likes isn't necessarily what someone else likes.
@ArtBear@mastodonapp.uk @atomicpoet
Could be. Maybe they'll never be ready.
I think my implication is that the continuing enshitification of the corporate networks will increasingly squeeze the users there until they start to notice those values are important.
But maybe they never will, and that's okay too. If they prefer to be in the walled gardens being increasingly herded by the people-farmers and all driven onto the same single app and on towards the rotating knives, then all the more pineapple for me.
When you keep with the phrase of being ready, I think you are missing my point.
It's not about ready, it's about opinion. Maybe they'll never agree with you, never adopt your personal opinions.
Has nothing to do with being ready or not ready. It only has to do with diversity of thought.
@ArtBear@mastodonapp.uk @atomicpoet
*sigh*
Well just realize that at this point you're coming across as something of a religious zealot.
You seem to be falling into the thought pattern where not only is it wrong to have different opinions from yourself, but it's even wrong to question whether it's okay to have different opinions from yourself.
It's always a red flag in my book when questioning of opinion is itself not allowed, when a philosophy has that built-in self protection rule.
@ArtBear@mastodonapp.uk @atomicpoet
Thank you for noticing 
@volkris @ArtBear @atomicpoet
Sounds like you are not yet ready to see the inevitability of it all, the commercial and social pressures all leading to one certain conclusion.
It's freedom, or the rotating knives.