ellie (slut arc) 🖤 
whoever the fuck decided that ecosia should have an llm generating answers to search queries should be shoved down the stairs and break something
the introduction of so-called "AI" into products whose users obviously and definitely Do Not Want It, such as ecosia or at mozilla, exemplifies the sheer soullessness of the nonprofit industrial complex. evidently the people making decisions at ecosia don't actually care about the environment, or being sustainable, or planting trees (which tbh is a very simplistic solution to a complex problem to begin with). No, to them ecosia is just a step on their career path like any other, and they're clearly more focused on being able to write "spearheaded introduction of AI at [company]" in their resume than they are on making good decisions that actually further the goals the nonprofit is ostensibly for.
The Nonprofit is a monument to the failures of liberalism
Juho MäntysaloWell, yes and no. After spending few years thinking about this problem on and off, I'd characterize this as one more example of tragedy of commons.¹
When the people of the Commons lose community, there's an opening for the executive to work without supervision for their own short-term benefit, which is nigh always opposed to the interest of the commons.
As long as you don't outright sink the ship, you're safe.
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¹ The current dictionary definition. Not the original one.
@roadblock161_
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It doesn't really matter are we talking of coöps, large stock companies with heavily distributed ownership, political parties that have become the status quo, or nonprofits:
At certain point there's no longer oversight, or loyal opposition beta testing ideas. Instead you get these professional administrators who are "just working there" and don't really care how their work relates to the non-stated goals and values of the community.