Mastodawn

futures i still believe are possible:
- civilization no longer depends on fossil fuels
- food, housing, physical and mental healthcare for all
- no billionaires
- full reparations to the colonized and the enslaved
- computing without big tech
- an internet without advertising
- total liberation for gender nonconforming people

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Mark T. Tomczak 1d ago

@jplebreton I still need to figure out who pays for the Internet without advertising.

Not impossible, but unclear how to get there.

Patronage could work, but (a) that makes content most reflective of the desires of the patrons and (b) no billionaires bumps up against that goal (though not incompatibly; a thousand millionaire patrons are quite possible, and probably reflect the needs of the people, better than one billionaire patron).

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MidgePhoto 1d ago

@mark @jplebreton
Do you think advertising is an efficient or effective method of paying?

Do you not pay a network fee to the organisation maintain8ng your connection?

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Mark T. Tomczak 1d ago

@Photo55 @jplebreton Advertising allows people with no money to access the site.

I pay a network fee, but homeless people using the library don't. Any solutions will have to account for whether they are still accommodated or are excluded.

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MidgePhoto 1d ago

@mark @jplebreton
You think the Library (a public service funded by the comm7nity and country here) does not pay a fee for the network use?
Maybe the books on the shelves arrived there free of charge?

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MidgePhoto

(yes, the fees for the library's network service are notional or rolled up in the network the local council funds and provides across it's services, rather than being collected monthly from the chief librarian. )