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Can We Build Tech That Is Not Oppressive?
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Yes, it is possible. I think it will be something like this:
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where proprietary software will eventually be replaced by FOSS software. it just takes a while (Linux was released in 1991).
also, for social media, it's not so much about the software used, more about who controls it, and hosting plays a significant part in this. the question is, how do we put up an organization large enough to actually sustain that many users?
who pays for image/short video upload for a billion people? small instances on the fediverse already cost real money. feddit.org has 1000 users and reportedly already costs $1000/month to host, IIRC (which seems expensive, even to me, anyways), and catbox.moe, which is a donation-funded service also costs around $1000 (says so on their website). that number would obviously increase sharply if there were more users. So: who pays for it?
Great points ... and yes that is a key question!
come to our matrix chat room where we discuss how to enable the fediverse for new users:
https://matrix.to/#%2F%21HRTxgrqbAUWGBZTsRX%3Amatrix.org%3Fvia=catgirl.cloud&via=matrix.org&via=tchncs.de