"[In a commons] ... there are engagements with the market, they're just not capital-driven, and extractive, and predatory.
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There can be market activity, but as many Open Source communities know, introducing money and transactionalism to that community can poison relationships. Can start to erode the community. So there's a certain trickiness to dealing with money in a commons."
#DavidBollier, 2025
https://revolution.social/episodes/think-like-a-commoner-author-david-bollier-on-the-/
#podcasts #NosSocial #RevolutionSocial #commons #OpenPlatforms
"What of we took TrustRoots, this couchsurfing-like sharing platform, and rebuilt it on a permissionless, open social protocol. So they're in the process of rewriting TrustRoots so it runs on the Nostr open social protocols. So that it... doesn't have the problem that happened with CouchSurfing[.com]. So that it isn't owned by just one person - the creator - but it is... held in common by the community... who are hosts..."
@rabble, 2025
https://revolution.social/episodes/think-like-a-commoner-author-david-bollier-on-the-/
