> realize a major risk with the current structure of online communication I wish this lesson could be learned once for all. A long-lived community/repository

> realize a major risk with the current structure of online communication I wish this lesson could be learned once for all. A long-lived community/repository cannot be built on a proprietary platform owned by some corporation. Full stop, no exception. It can't be done. A corporation will at some point need to maximize profit extraction which will ruin it for everyone. A corporation also won't support a platform forever nor can the entity itself survive forever. A single point of failure can't last forever. > We need to decentralize our communications Look at the solutions which have lasted longest. Email & mailing lists, going strong since the 1970s. Completely decentralized, interoperability defined by open standard protocols, anyone can build interoperable clients and servers. Nobody owns it. There's no "it" to own. That is what's needed for long term viability.