We need to get rid of the idea that ads can pay for literally everything online. It’s a fundamental part of the reason everything is so broken.

@johnlynch @onepict Indeed. And we must consider funding technology for the coming good from the commons.

https://ar.al/2019/11/29/the-future-of-internet-regulation-at-the-european-parliament/

The Future of Internet Regulation at the European Parliament

A brief write-up of my talk at the EU Parliament last week with embedded videos of my talk and a link to my slides.

Aral Balkan

@aral
Yes, ads themselves are toxic, drive toxic business models and toxic products, partly through centralising power, and of course by hiding better products and undermining trusted networks (eg person-to-person).

Aral, do you recall me urging you to look at Safe Network a few years ago because of these issues, to bring your UX ideas?

I know you have your own approach as well but hope that now it is happening it will be interesting to you - recently renamed #Autonomi

@johnlynch @onepict

@happyborg @johnlynch @onepict Yep, do recall. It’s on my radar; I do check back every now and then. Will make some time to do again this week :)

@aral
Cool. They just published https://docs.autonomi.com which may be a good place to start. Details of current testnet, which anyone can join to run nodes or upload/download etc are at https://forum.autonomi.community, along with our friendly helpful community. 😁

I'm finishing a demo that publishes/views versioned websites on Autonomi.

Good to see you still active too.
@johnlynch @onepict

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