It's an inconvenient take, but [Stallman(strikeout)]/[Corey Doctorow] was right, the shittification is real. It's been really nice letting VC funding pay for p

It's an inconvenient take, but [Stallman(strikeout)]/[Corey Doctorow] was right, the shittification is real. It's been really nice letting VC funding pay for people with no money or technical knowledge participate, and I don't want to be an "Eternal September" gatekeeper, but every platform like this has it's glory day when it's happiness and rainbows, and then one day, we need to maximize profits, and it all goes to shit when we need to MONETIZE MONETIZE MONETIZE. We need to figure out some model where people have ownership of their identity instead of selling it to some "free as in beer" corporation. This also goes for all the "Google deleted my gmail which I use for 2FA because I uploaded a video of my kids birthday party with copyright music in the background" type worries Back in the late 90's in my European country, the post office had a vision of giving everyone their e-mail identity (verified by sending a post card to their address). Then the post office got privatized. We need more non-VC, non-Unicorn thinking like these (not necessarily giving power to governments...)