If you want to hear SS's Chris Best try to defend their approach, and @rabble challenging him on its implications, this is well worth a listen;
https://revolution.social/episodes/substack-ceo-chris-best-on-democratizing-media-con/
"[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
I finally got around to checking out the first episode of Revolution.social, an interview with Jack Dorsey;
https://revolution.social/episodes/jack-dorsey-on-selling-twitter-leaving-bluesky-wha/
This was an obvious choice in a way, given both were involved in the early days of Titter. But also a curious one, given that @rabble is, in his own words, a far left anarchist. While Dorsey is a tech CEO and by most accounts a right-leaning libertarian politically, and a crypto true believer.
(1/2)
"Today on Revolution.Social, George and Rabble talk about how the online multiplayer Game Neverending evolved into Flickr; the groundbreaking ways the site approached content moderation and avoiding context collapse; and why the sort of hypergrowth that makes Silicon Valley tick is “the antithesis of building a healthy, happy community.” Plus: The plan to save all of Flickr’s photos, no matter what happens.'
https://revolution.social/episodes/our-mission-is-to-keep-flickr-pictures-visible-for/
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