[liberationtech] Wealthy entrepreneurs ask whether you would use a Liberationtech-friendly Twitter clone?

[Kate Krauss]

Hi,

I think that we many more kinds of electronic commons, both for-profit and
non-profit. I'd welcome a new one.

-Kate Krauss

On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 9:36 PM Brian Behlendorf <brian at behlendorf.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Apr 2022, Yosem Companys wrote:
> > Dear Liberation Technology community,
> >
> > A group of wealthy serial entrepreneurs who built a Twitter clone to
> foster civic democracy in the 2020 elections just reached out to me to ask
> whether you would be interested in using a
> > Liberationtech-friendly Twitter clone now that Elon Musk has bought
> Twitter. They want to know the following:
> >  *  Would you use a Liberationtech-friendly Twitter clone?
> >  *  What would make you want to use it? Conversely, what would make you
> NOT want to use it?
> >  *  What would you name it? They said they might even be open to calling
> it Liberationtech, if there were enough interest.
> > Thank you, Yosem
>
> If there is any lesson from all this, I suspect it's that any centralized
> communication service even run by the most competent, well intentioned,
> humble and not-profit-oriented (clearly, judging from their stock price)
> founders & techs is susceptable to subsequent capture by others. As the
> open source software community figured out, the "right to fork" is the
> only meaningful check on the winner-take-all power-corrupts dynamic in
> networks.
>
> So I think the answer is, those founders should either make their service
> with, or just go use one of the existing implementations of, Mastodon or
> other emerging dweb alternatives.
>
> Brian
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