You shouldn't expect centralised organisations, be it companies or governments, to be good at implementing or even supporting decentralised solutions. That's just Conway's law [1] at work.

That's why decentralised solutions are shared, implemented bottom-up by communities of practice.

This is also why decentralised solutions are hard to monetise.

TL;DR: Decentralised solutions work best when they are open source, open hardware, run in cooperative ways.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law

"Our students here in West Virginia would rather buy feed for their animals than textbooks, and you can't really blame them there." Taylor Miltenberger, Blue Ridge Community & Technical College

Taylor's work on OER and digital connectivity in WV is fantastic. Really impressed and excited for it to be published.

There is no "confusion" over the Strait of Hormuz and Lebanon.

Israel is violating the cease fire by continuing to massacre people in Lebanon (and Gaza). Full stop.

How does a community know itself without actually checking in on every individual about everything? By a weird mix of representative politics and lazy generalisation.

Some people end up holding a bullhorn and saying what’s what, and some people participate anyway while agreeing or not agreeing. No one can possibly know what everyone is doing, but the bullhorn holders get a bigger say.

Meanwhile everyday practice defines lived experience, and that comes to you through another weird mix of social norms and random behaviours.

Now multiply that by many communities each with different norms interacting with each other, and try saying “this whole culture is definitely this one thing.” We do it all the time with cities, countries, religions, platforms. It’s small town sense-making, and it leans heavily on gossip.

It seems to me what really makes the difference is listening deeply to people talking about their lived experience, believing them, and acting in solidarity against harm to them. Just as in any street.