The collapse of Twitter for (basically) self-inflicted reasons makes a strong case for building online infrastructure structured as a non-profit or public utility.
People rely on these platforms for public information, use them for democratic debate and many invest their livelihoods in them.
These platforms are too important to public safety, peoples’ livelihoods and democracy to leave in the hands of eccentric billionaires or the whims of stock markets.
@stribeprogblog @llebrun Kinda sorta. The software Mastodon is funded by a non-profit, but the "Fediverse" is literally just a collection of servers owned by random ass people talking to one another. Which I prefer to state control, it keeps moderation out of the hands of states that 100% will abuse that.
But like the VLC player project findoms the French, so I really like the idea of geting taxpayer money to fund FOSS we use to shitpost, since that degree of separation helps to avoid states telling us what we can say.
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