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As Facebook bought WhatsApp after a few years when WhatsApp got big enough what's to stop another huge corporation to buy Signal or Telegram when they become bi
by thinkingemote 6y ago
As Facebook bought WhatsApp after a few years when WhatsApp got big enough what's to stop another huge corporation to buy Signal or Telegram when they become big enough? Because it will happen, it always happens.
Whats to stop the cycle?
- sneak 6y agoSignal is a nonprofit, does not store metadata, and is likely not for sale.
- thinkingemote 6y agoAll great things when they are small. Many small organisations have noble aims. When they have 2 billion users what's to stop change? We see it all the time. But I'm talking more generally here: how can we structure our organisations to be resistant to take overs? Foundations? Cooperatives perhaps? We've seen with some coops (most mutual banks/building societies in the UK) you just need to pay enough members some money to remove the restrictions