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> So what is the non capitalist alternative? State controlled social media services? The alternative is not state controlled media, but rather anything other t
by jacobr 9y ago
> So what is the non capitalist alternative? State controlled social media services?
The alternative is not state controlled media, but rather anything other than an oligopoly. For several reasons it overtook IRC, personal websites, etc, but alternatives are not unthinkable.
- sandinmytea 9y ago"Bicameral" board structure in a B-Corp w/ appropriate mission. A blocking vote's worth of "stakeholders" which have predetermined portions of a holdings company (Ben Cohen, thnx!) Accept capital the same, yet shareholders only have x% instead of x+f*users%. Make revenue via advertisement, hosting, SaaS; aggregate, anonymize and make available the data. Cloud computing, independent instances + economies of scale for the cohort. AI assisted web-rings for social media/hypermedia. It would profit-share the popular content creators AND open source contributors.
- nickpp 9y agoSounds interesting, now go build it. Don’t just tell others what to do, lead by example and prove that it’s viable.
- simonh 9y agoNot unthinkable, but all the ones that have been suggested are, either unusable for most people. ‘Install your own server!’ Or quite possible but nobody is actually doing it, and therefore are irrelevant. That’s the thing with Capitalism, it gets stuff done.