The video in the last 5 minutes discusses what if communities had their own currencies, and their own social platforms. But someone has to build it. And it take

The video in the last 5 minutes discusses what if communities had their own currencies, and their own social platforms. But someone has to build it. And it takes time. Sometimes an entire decade. But if we the people don't get our act together, the outcome in the video is to be expected. Back in 2011, I saw this and started a company to try to build a viable open-source alternative to Big Tech. While we were building, I saw Diaspora*, Mastodon, etc. SoLiD (now Inrupt) by TimBL, and others. But none of those can compete with Big Tech on features. I launched https://Qbix.com https://Qbix.com hired some developers in Ukraine and put out apps for community leaders, that now have been downloaded by over 10 million people in over 120 countries. We translated it into 15 languages. But the apps were relatively simple. We reinvested $1M of our profits into the Qbix Platform, which is supposed to be an open-source Social Operating System that takes what Big Tech has (but will never give you) and give it to the people. You can play around with it now. But you might want to wait until version 2.0 is released, with all the documentation, in 15 languages. Anyway it's free and open source at https://github.com/Qbix/Platform https://github.com/Qbix/Platform Somewhere around 2017 I wrote a vision of where we were and how we can go further: https://qbix.com/blog/2017/12/18/power-to-the-people/ https://qbix.com/blog/2017/12/18/power-to-the-people/ We went further, spinning off a separate new company called Intercoin to build Web3 smart contracts, so that communities can do all the following things without trusting any middlemen, not even their own corporate directors: https://intercoin.org/applications https://intercoin.org/applications One target market for instance is a fund for refugees: https://community.intercoin.app/t/fund-for-refugees https://community.intercoin.app/t/fund-for-refugees But most implementations are designed to be local. Smart contracts are optional, but once the community gets large enough that a few people start being in charge of securing a lot of money, votes, or whatever, that's when they become useful. In my experience, talking to VCs and other capitalists, most of them feel we are doing "too much". But I feel the rest of the liberty-loving world isn't doing enough*. At least I put my own money where my mouth is, and built it, and now we're giving it away. Use it ... if you want.