I expect to see a chorus of “well actually” skeets about this post by @pluralistic (https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/), but we have seen this movie before.
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Richard MacManuswrote last edited by [email protected]
I expect to see a chorus of “well actually” skeets about this post by @pluralistic about Bluesky (https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/), but we have seen this movie before. Remember when the narrative about Twitter was that it was an “open” platform, circa 2007-08? We believed it then, because the API was freely available and didn’t have many restrictions at that time. But when Twitter needed to show more revenue growth, the screws began to be turned. https://cybercultural.com/p/twitter-in-2007-the-open-platform/
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@ricmac @pluralistic Anything that needs funding to exist is going to run into this problem. The original creators might have great goals all about helping society, but at some point the VC's come in either by investing or buying outright, and then they don't care about that stuff at ALL.
So you really need to write whatever vision you have into the bylaws of your company so that violation of them, or attempt to change, results in the product being public domain. But now harder to sell/fund
