It could also be an inside job. Anti-genocide resistance within Microsoft is quite strong and active.
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"Virtual backgrounds as the norm" is an interesting practice, pretty much like school uniforms erasing difference in class by dressing everybody the same.
virtual and blurred backgrounds still signal a lot. Not only they let the viewer know that your environment is not nice, but they also become aware you're somewhat ashamed of it, enough to be willing to hide it.
That quote about reality-based community is also made up.
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Hello. What kind of content do you plan to produce? Is there a budget or is it fully volunteer work? What's the purpose and goal beyond informing people? Is there a target audience and a specific outcome you're seeking? Is there a body of knowledge to turn into this wiki or will you start from scratch?
That said, there is r/collapse on reddit that I think it's the biggest community surrounding collapse. You might want to ask newsletters on similar topics like Ok, Doomer or Last Week in Collapse. There are also plenty of Deep Adaptation communities on every social network, including a big group on Facebook.
Most likely, these spaces will also be able to point you to other similar and more mature efforts in the same vein. I doubt that, given that the people studying these topics or doing activism around it are so many, there's not already several wikis with similar material.
Also, talking about UX/UI, one great such thing is this: https://beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/
If the protocol doesn't give incentives for an even distribution of users, it's not going to be solved by blaming individual instances or individual users.
There's no evidence to support what you're talking about. Mastodon, Misskey and Lemmy monthly active users flatlined a long ago. They are not growing and there's no evidence they will resume to grow in these conditions.
A multi-protocol network might not be unlikely, but it will still be very asymetric, with AP as a secondary actor. Power shapes technology, not the other way around.
I wouldn't say the fediverse is established. It's a very small and niche phenomenon compared to mainstream social media. By now it's clear it's not going to ever grow to an impactful size. It's here to stay, but it will stay as a minor, geeky thing.
This scenario would also be aligned with the goals of this initiative. I don't think they see a problem with it. The majority of the signatories are techno-optimist liberals who believe the good tech bros should be in control of society's discourse to prevent the American empire from collapsing. Billionaries are evil because they are enemy of the status quo.
Well, if they build enough leverage, they could force Bluesky to adopt a version of AT that is less skewed in their favor. Protocol details are easy to change when you have only one adopter, lol. Not sure this is part of their strategy though.
Also you seem to be thinking that anybody involved in this (the fediverse, bluesky, this initiative) follow a logic of commoning, where this money will be spent to improve the technical protocol itself. I don't think this is the goal at all here. They want to change the power structure in the world of social media and integrating with AT is just a tool for that, that might change going forward. AT is interesting only insofar it supports their goal, but the interest of the "AT commons" (which for what I know is basically non-existant) is a secondary concern for now.
You cannot escape social norms. The act of rejecting them doesn't free you from them. You will be judged for rejecting them and others will adapt to it, either by rejecting them too and creating a new social norm, or shunning you and attaching a certain rejection to a specific social signal. There's nothing artificial on it. The logic you describe is very oblivious to how social norms and social actors work.
Also here we are talking about webcams not really as technological artifacts, but as social tools. Obviously it's not a technical requirement to be presentable, but a social requirement, that's implicit in the discussion.