Notices by Matt Panhans (mpanhans@social.librem.one)

@atoponce That's great. Wasn't sure this day would ever actually arrive!

@adx @ntnsndr I see your points. I've come to the view that things like private equity and venture capital are often bad, but not always purely bad. Brendan Ballou's book Plunder shows how PE does have some success stories, like keeping Barnes and Noble as a going concern. If VC provides some projects enough resources to take on Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Hollywood IP, big telecomm, and replace them with things more open and decentralized, I'm interested to see how it goes.

@ntnsndr I haven't read the Dixon book but this seems too critical. I've heard interviews and he often talks about the importance of open source, decentralization, and community governance. He's well read in history and philosophy of science and technology. My guess is he would be really into your ideas on internet democracy and platform cooperativism.

@Natanox In SimCity on the Super Nintendo, I remember that using all rail and zero roads allowed you the benefits of connectivity without having to deal with traffic congestion. @TheWarOnCars @capntransit

@lightweight @becha I feel like it’s such an obvious and smart decision. I personally like Jitsi as a zoom replacement but whatever the application it is very clear to me that open source digital infrastructure is this massively under-funded public good