May First Movement Technology
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The report leaves no doubt: the negative impact of the datacenters is not an (energy) efficiency issue, is about effectiveness: most of the resources are used for private data capture and processing for advertisement and control.
The environmental cost (in lives) is about #SurveillanceCapitalism: again, the appropriation and privatization of the #Commons (everyone), robbed and concentrated in a few hands.
Since 2016 we have been working on the Five Pillar framework for commons-based business models. And while it has greatly evolved through practice in commons-collaborative economy programmes and platform coops and #SSE courses, we hadn't published too much about it.
Now here's an introduction with the necessary references: https://freeknowledge.eu/five-pillar-model-commons-business-models
thanks to @femprocomuns, Labcoop & many cooperative commons businesses
#businessmodels #opensource #commons #democratictech #sustainability
hamish campbell
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⁂ Article
Capitalism is a hostage situation -Not an economy
Our current #mainstreaming path of paywalls stacked on paywalls isn’t life, it’s a trap, we need a way out. In our everyday lives, we’ve come to accept the absurd:
You pay to eat food grown on land you don’t own,
Pay to sleep under a roof that someone profits from,
Pay to drink water privatized by corporations,
Pay to breathe, because the air is poisoned by industries that sell you both the problem and the solution.
And if you miss a payment? Game over. That’s not a […]
Michel Jacquet
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Is the concept of Digital Commons still relevant or just too vague?
@cnrs Centre Internet et Société recently released an in-depth study via @NGICommons exploring how digital resources are shared and governed in Europe today. 📘
With interviews and case studies
please read this sharp analysis here: https://commons.ngi.eu/2025/06/26/active-communities-of-commoners-and-relevant-commons/
#DigitalCommons#Commons
Thank you @valerian
@openfuture @OpenForumEurope
@martelinnovate
@linuxfoundation
Dodge the dodgy #AI infested corporate #streaming services and zoom out, as on the #fediverse we own the stream. Here are platforms that offer #streaming of #video or #audio in real time or near real time, with live chat and other #social capabilities.
On the fediverse our 💜 #lifestreams meet people and humanity and we engage our favorite fedi crowds. Fedi is where outreach matters.
#Librecast LIVE. @librecast is a research project aiming to bring #Multicast to the masses.
The free and #commons-based fediverse grows organically, like a beautiful garden. Social web technologies can only emerge and evolve by #CommonsParticipation, crafted by many people with love and the joy of coding, while exploring realms of creation.
Joyful creation is where #fediverse allows us to ✨ social code the social code together.
@mapache@badgefed@vocalcat.com @badgefed@badges.vocalcat.com @julian @dajb @RyunoKi
It is! 😃
I just posted some more on the revitalization of #DelightfulCommons, e.g. how #FOSS projects are never 'dead'. A project is either good enough or even 'complete' and lives on like a tardigrade, or the value disperse within the #commons. The way it disperses can be influenced by gardening, so it helps furtilize the common ground.
https://social.coop/@smallcircles/114655238657625400
The revitalization is made possible by @nlnet support my 'commons janitoring'.
Nicolas Fressengeas
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I discovered @streetcomplete some time ago and began answering quests, as a small and regular contribution to #OSM datas. It's fun, and this is a way to re-discover my daily neighbourhood in #montreal
Some questions for streetcomplete users :
- how to edit a quest when I accidentally validate a wrong data ?
- is there a way to add informations (objects) for public #art pieces, which are located in public space ? (such as sculptures, statues, murals...)
Thanks for your help 🙏
#maps #openstreetmap #streetcomplete #opensource #commons #Montrealmap #quebecmap
A good summary of the 1990s internet commons, and maybe a warning for the online commons of the 2020s?
"Well, the Market hadn't figured out how to monetize it yet, and the commoners, for their part, didn't preemptively devise ways to protect the value they were creating."
#DavidBollier, 2025