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(new blogpost) A time will shortly be upon us when we must decide, make a choice about how we might want our interweb to look and be in the near future and beyond. I think it boils down to a single catch-all choice: who owns the content and interactions of the Internet. ...

#fediverse #platformsociety #datasociety #socialmedia

https://penworks.net/blog/billionaire-platform-society-and-you

in reply to Dr Pen

A nice post from our apologizing #fashernistas on the mess we need to compost in the #Fediverse and wider #openweb reboot https://penworks.net/blog/billionaire-platform-society-and-you
in reply to vagabond

#OGB can I point you to a project that has been widely developing over the last few years on #socialhub to move "governance" from the coders to the producers, the instances and the people.

https://unite.openworlds.info/Open-Media-Network/openwebgovernancebody

Yes it's messy and truly "native" for this, it's based on what works, a long history of what works.

We can't keep making more #techshit as you say, it's not the helpful path 😀

in reply to vagabond

@Hamishcampbell that's great. I'll dig in later. Feel free to point me at anything you think I'd be interested in.
in reply to Dr Pen

well worth watching https://visionon.tv/w/qgpbyBTuJGvvpxagWYxkLX


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