Is HN not the place with lots of people qualified to build an alternative to all this scam data silos with their profit-driven toxic dark patterns? An open sour

Is HN not the place with lots of people qualified to build an alternative to all this scam data silos with their profit-driven toxic dark patterns? An open source, open access meeting platform run as a commons (and maybe upkept by a foundation for love, joy & connection.. or, meh, the wikimedia foundation?) should be far from rocket science with today's tools..