"[In a commons] ... there are engagements with the market, they're just not capital-driven, and extractive, and predatory.

...

There can be market activity, but as many Open Source communities know, introducing money and transactionalism to that community can poison relationships. Can start to erode the community. So there's a certain trickiness to dealing with money in a commons."

#DavidBollier, 2025

https://revolution.social/episodes/think-like-a-commoner-author-david-bollier-on-the-/

#podcasts #NosSocial #RevolutionSocial #commons #OpenPlatforms

I finally got around to checking out the first episode of Revolution.social, an interview with Jack Dorsey;

https://revolution.social/episodes/jack-dorsey-on-selling-twitter-leaving-bluesky-wha/

This was an obvious choice in a way, given both were involved in the early days of Titter. But also a curious one, given that @rabble is, in his own words, a far left anarchist. While Dorsey is a tech CEO and by most accounts a right-leaning libertarian politically, and a crypto true believer.

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#podcasts #NosSocial #RevolutionSocial #Nostr

"Part of the reason I built diVine was, I wanted an example of this Social Media Bill of Rights. I wanted this idea that users own their own name and their content. That we get say over the algorithms and that we get transparency over them. That we get the right exit, because it's built on this Nostr protocol."

@rabble, 2025

https://revolution.social/episodes/vine-revisited-and-the-fight-against-ai-slop/

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#podcasts #RevolutionSocial #SocialMediaBillOfRights #diVine #Nostr

"Today on Revolution.Social, George and Rabble talk about how the online multiplayer Game Neverending evolved into Flickr; the groundbreaking ways the site approached content moderation and avoiding context collapse; and why the sort of hypergrowth that makes Silicon Valley tick is “the antithesis of building a healthy, happy community.” Plus: The plan to save all of Flickr’s photos, no matter what happens.'

https://revolution.social/episodes/our-mission-is-to-keep-flickr-pictures-visible-for/

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#podcasts #NosSocial #RevolutionSocial

Starting the latest episode of #RevolutionSocial and ooh, Rabble and Cory are going live on a stage in Nov this year!

www.youtube.com/watch

Currently watching the latest #RevolutionSocial podcast with Taylor Lorenz, and makes me grateful to be posting to my own site (thanks micro.blog!), crossposted to my self-hosted Bluesky account and to my own Nostr relay even if I don’t use Nostr that much.. haha

I own my own data 🔥