The idea of free information is incompatible with the existence of corporations that profit from its commodification. The battle to make information free is the battle for an entirely different world.

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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    2 years ago

    I expect to see growth of non profit social networking where people run servers as a hobby without a monetary incentive. This is what we saw happening a lot at the dawn of the internet with people running BBS boards, IRC channels, and small personal sites. I think platforms like Lemmy and Mastodon capture some of the same appeal and a lot of people are starting become disillusioned with profit driven models. We’ll see how things develop I guess.

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      2 years ago

      I can see where your coming from though the point i’m saying is that these servers requires electricity which costs money there’s also living costs, you can have the best intentions in the world but without going to the root of the problem it will result in the same outcome no matter how you reorganise the management of price indexes.

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        2 years ago

        So far, it seems like a lot of fairly large instances are doing well with the donation model. Only a small percentage of users have to contribute to pay for the hosting costs. Again, this worked the same way with the old internet as well. I don’t think the outcome of the fediverse being commercialized is inevitable or even likely.

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            2 years ago

            Non commercial internet never did go away though, it’s just become more niche. I think these things ebb and flow. The pendulum swings one way and then the other. :)