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> non-profit Yeah, no. Unless this is done as an institution like Telegram is (it's made by the VK guy, and he's not charging for any part of it) or it's paid
by striking 11y ago
> non-profit
Yeah, no. Unless this is done as an institution like Telegram is (it's made by the VK guy, and he's not charging for any part of it) or it's paid for by tax dollars (and then it would only work for some inhabitants of our planet), nothing will happen. Also, that licensing scheme idea is nifty, but it creates a chicken-and-egg problem. I don't think a single company wants to open its silo because of the advantage that it gets, and because they pay money to establish themselves socially (ads and whatnot), so allowing crappier competitors space on your platform makes you suck.
- x5n1 11y agomeh. not really religious about it being non-profit. and even then it can be non-profit somewhere other than the US. US is not the be all end all. the world is a big place.
- jsprogrammer 11y agoFor it to work, it really needs to be user-owned and controlled, otherwise you're just the next company-of-the-week.
- x5n1 11y agono it doesn't. the user delegates their rights to the non-profit which has a democratic governance model. in fact this argument of it being user owned and controlled has totally been proven unworkable. most users don't give a shit, hence it's irrelevant what they think or do. they rather delegate their rights to someone else and let them manage that.
- jsprogrammer 11y agoOwned in the sense that it exists for the benefit of the user. Controlled in the sense that the user has influence over the platform.
- briandear 11y agoAll of this over apartment listings? These aren't cancer cures we're talking about, these are for profit listings to sell a product.
- jessriedel 11y agoWikipedia?
- JupiterMoon 11y agoThis sort of data is not really notable enough for wikipedia.
- jessriedel 11y agoSorry, I didn't mean it should go in Wikipedia. I was holding Wikipedia up as an example of a non-profit that could do important data management at scale.
- JupiterMoon 11y agoWikipedia is sort of weird (good but unique weird). Anyone can edit it and upload data but hardly anyone does so. It also has really strict policies on e.g. defamation without which a commercial service would quickly become a mess.
- jessriedel 11y agoHuh? Defamation isn't a problem when craigslist is hosting stuff like classified ads. Why would this suddenly be worse for a non-profit?
- JupiterMoon 11y agoI guess that craigslist follows local laws that require e.g. human interaction in certain cases.