On Wed, 27 Apr 2022, Yosem Companys wrote:
Dear Liberation Technology community,
A group of wealthy serial entrepreneurs who built a Twitter clone to foster
civic democracy in the 2020 elections just reached out to me to ask whether you
would be interested in using a
Liberationtech-friendly Twitter clone now that Elon Musk has bought Twitter.
They want to know the following:
* Would you use a Liberationtech-friendly Twitter clone?
* What would make you want to use it? Conversely, what would make you NOT
want to use it?
* What would you name it? They said they might even be open to calling it
Liberationtech, if there were enough interest.
Thank you, Yosem
If there is any lesson from all this, I suspect it's that any centralized
communication service even run by the most competent, well intentioned,
humble and not-profit-oriented (clearly, judging from their stock price)
founders & techs is susceptable to subsequent capture by others. As the
open source software community figured out, the "right to fork" is the
only meaningful check on the winner-take-all power-corrupts dynamic in
networks.
So I think the answer is, those founders should either make their service
with, or just go use one of the existing implementations of, Mastodon or
other emerging dweb alternatives.
Brian
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