«Komoot is neither a moral failure nor an outlier but the capitalist system of value extraction working exactly as intended for the platform owners. Whether they’re called Komoot, Strava, AllTrails, or Garmin, for-profit corporations squeeze and sell us out when we give them the opportunity. […] capturing communities with false promises only to sell us out is business as usual in the corporate internet.»
It's why we need community-governed and -owned infrastructure.
«Komoot’s core tech of Leaflet map, Graphhopper routing engine, and #OpenStreetMap data are all free, open-source projects. This is in addition to all the open-source web servers, databases, and operating systems that tech companies build upon. They leech off the open-source commons»
I'm convinced that this is one of the big reasons why we need some form of @next sooner rather than later, to ensure our commons can be saved from corp capture.
While I agree with everything the author wrote, I find it quite hypocritical that an article which complains about corporate internet is posted on a website which uses googletagmanager, google-analytics, facebook pixel and facebook tracking.
Bastian Greshake Tzovaras
jomo
RK
Markus Roeder
abeorch
Stéphane Tuffier