Chad LoderIt would be a good time to put serious financial backing behind Black-owned social media platform cooperatives. Yeah?
Joshua Lander@chadloder I don’t know. I think it’s always a good time to put serious financial backing into Black-owned businesses — but I fundamentally don’t think social media ought to be a business.
Kyle Marek-Spartz@chadloder @josh a cooperative isn't necessarily a business
@chadloder @kms I’m listening!
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@josh @chadloder I agree, it should not.
Social media will be the downfall of modern society.
@chadloder @spectrumfox corporate-owned social media, at least!
@josh Social media in general. Not everyone in the world should have a voice, and not everyone in the world should be listened to.
Igor Sovcik@josh @chadloder @spectrumfox and what do You think will be biggest use case of fediverse in near future. I can see clearly that for big corporate brands such as Coca Cola and so on would be beneficial to own for example mastodon server with its followers hosted on it. They could build whole user base, grant them benefits for membership and serve them ads without being dependant on 3.rd party. Or is this somehow preventable?
@josh I tend to agree we should support folks experimenting with new models, that's why I said "cooperatives" rather than companies or businesses!
@chadloder Black-owned, non-profit, renewably-powered data center full of SBCs (like Raspberry Pi) offering free Mastodon instances to members of the BIPOC community.
I would fund the hell out of that.
@chadloder (Hell, I would even volunteer to admin it.)