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Well, it seems that hacker culture and open source software would be the antidote to all these. Web2 and Web3 have been captured by the profit motive. Web2 wit
by EGreg 4y ago
Well, it seems that hacker culture and open source software would be the antidote to all these.
Web2 and Web3 have been captured by the profit motive. Web2 with professional VCs and Web3 with everyone playing VC. Web1 was very much a countercultural movement.
I've been part of the IndieWeb, DecentralizedWeb, OfflineFirst movements, met with Tim Berners-Lee, just finished an interview with Noam Chomsky and David Harvey (raw video here: https://vimeo.com/795006182/31cdfcf335 https://vimeo.com/795006182/31cdfcf335). I've written about what needs to happen on the Web for it to change (https://cointelegraph.com/news/how-a-web-that-lost-its-way-can-find-a-new-one https://cointelegraph.com/news/how-a-web-that-lost-its-way-c...)
It's hard to have a counterculture when the dominant tools are all owned by huge corporations and governments. Here is some open source software to get you started if you're interested:
Web2: https://qbix.com https://qbix.com
Web3: https://intercoin.org/applications https://intercoin.org/applications
- zzo38computer 4y ago> It's hard to have a counterculture when the dominant tools are all owned by huge corporations and governments. Yes, that is one of the problems (it is not only things that can be problems, though). > Well, it seems that hacker culture and open source software would be the antidote to all these. I think it will not cure everything, but I think that it will help. However, in addition to the software being FOSS, it also needs to be good. (Fortunately, FOSS can help a bit since it makes it possible to make improvements, but that doesn't automatically make it good.)