Hearken has shown that treating your community as coreporters is highly valuable both for newsrooms and readers. Social media has given everyone a voice. What if you redesigned content management to take that into account from the ground up? Not a CMS; not a forum. Something new.
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Comments are horrible as a community platform. Slack as a side community has worked fairly well for sites like The Information. But I bet something much better is possible, that allows publishers to really leverage their community and gives readers more value.
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I 100% agree with the idea that vast wealth - being rich - should be socially unacceptable.
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Of course, these donut heads would never build better infrastructure or consider creating anything that actually helped real people live.
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The vision for the web is a place without benevolent supercorps. Tim Berners-Lee said it best: “this is for everyone”. It’s all of ours.
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The problem with self-contained network silos is that a single entity dictates what can be said, seen & heard. Benevolent supercorps again.
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The problem with the native app ecosystem is app stores: an entity on each platform dictating what’s acceptable. Benevolent supercorps.
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So it’s kind of a shame that the word “liberty” is mostly used by people who want to ride roughshod over everybody else.
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@francesbell Decentralized data is core to this! But again: what can we do better with decentralized data than centralized? Privacy for sure
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Core question: what can decentralized software do better than centralized, leaving aside ideology? My bet is on business use cases to start.
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The problem is pressing. In a world where authoritarianism is on the rise, ethical software shouldn't track users in an identifying way.
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Decentralization is not a value proposition, unfortunately. It's important to build great products that happen to be decentralized.
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While "let's not build products that could undermine democratic society" sounds like a human problem, most users don't see the need in time.
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It's not enough to build a product with a democratic ideology. You have to do the hard work of making sure you're solving a human problem.
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Where decentralization communities failed was on desirability of their offerings to ordinary people. Projects were too academic / nerdy.
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We now know that targeted advertising was used to attempt to swing a federal election, and that the administration wanted a mole inside Fb.
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During the sourcing for Matter Seven, I used a veto vote several times because of founder sexism or racism. Made me sad every time.
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TV needs to be a separate, first-class device, capable of playing content on its own. The friction of phone or laptop as controller is high.
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@chrisaldrich @realkimhansen Maybe webmention a hub site? I think there's something to be said for setting up central topic-specific hubs.
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True security comes from freedom, and ability for everyone everywhere to lead good lives. Of course May doesn't get it.
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On the other hand, a fresh laptop is just waiting for new experiments and different adventures.
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Between Micropub, Webmention, IndieAuth, WebPub, Activity Streams and ActivityPub, I'm excited to watch my friends create a more indie web.
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I switched to 1Password for all my accounts last year. I have vaults for work, home, etc, on all my devices. You should use it; it's great.
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