Hi, I think that we many more kinds of electronic commons, both for-profit and non-profit. I'd welcome a new one.
-Kate Krauss On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 9:36 PM Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable from any major > commercial search engine. Violations of list guidelines will get you > moderated: https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/lt. Unsubscribe, > change to digest mode, or change password by emailing > [email protected]. > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable from any major > commercial search engine. Violations of list guidelines will get you > moderated: https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/lt. Unsubscribe, > change to digest mode, or change password by emailing > [email protected]. >
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