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@DiaDemiEmi @nanianmichaels @mods

From a @stux post, there appears to be some potential for funding from federation with extractive social networks. I could be misunderstanding. A non-extractive social network will need to respond to evolutionary forces to develop ecosystem services that allow it to thrive. If the extractive funding removes that evolutionary force and replaces it with a dependency for that funding, then the non-extractive social ecosystem won't develop beyond that dependency.

An example might be as I interpret from "Ministry for the Future". The non-extractive social network develops an ecosystem service that allows actors to opt-in for obtaining the value of their privacy and attention as a commodity that the actor gets the value for, instead of an extractive social network "owning" the actor's content and extracting the value.

The damage to the Fediverse would come from removal of evolutionary force for development of ecosystem services if funding comes from extractive networks.