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@bhawthorne @Miniver I (optimistically) think that this is actually the snake eating itself. The business model of capturing eyeballs is disintegrating in front of our eyes. Soon only quality content will actually pull readers, through search engines that don’t incentivize selling those eyeballs.

18 Dec 2023 at 15:07 | Wall-to-wall | Open on hachyderm.io
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Brian Hawthorne

@mnl @Miniver It is the idea of a business model that is the problem. That’s not what we started the Internet for. And I apologize for my early contributions to the commercialization of the Internet. We were sure we were building better world, but were naive to think that it wouldn’t be usurped by the oligarchs.

The next version should be non-commercial, distributed, and person-to-person. Let’s build it.

18 Dec 2023 at 16:08 | Open on infosec.exchange
Jonathan Korman

@bhawthorne @mnl

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Major tech platforms should be democratically accountable public utilities
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If we do not turn the tech stacks into public utilities like this, Metcalfe’s Law and other winner-take-all dynamics will give us neo-feudalism instead: all of us dependent on a narrow oligarchy who own and control the resources which we depend upon.
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@bhawthorne @mnl

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Major tech platforms should be democratically accountable public utilities
⋯
If we do not turn the tech stacks into public utilities like this, Metcalfe’s Law and other winner-take-all dynamics will give us neo-feudalism instead: all of us dependent on a narrow oligarchy who own and control the resources which we depend upon.
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18 Dec 2023 at 16:44 | Open on mastodon.social
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