I love Linux, but it would not exist without corporate sponsors. It's a wonderful project and it continues to stay relatively pure due to the GPL, but there's really no possibility a social media platform (or the internet at-large) could adopt a similar strategy. Hosting is expensive, speech is fickle, and people's willingness to adopt fringe alternatives is at an all-time low. And without it's Benevolent Dictator For Life, there's frankly no guarantee that Linux wouldn't become a corporate-driven project. Blind authoritarianism is ironically one of it's strongest defenses.
The decentralized internet, the blockchain, the darkweb and I2P all need someone to pay for hosting costs. If you don't get a corporation in your pocket early and fast, then you won't be able to scale your website reliably. It's a common constraint across most networked platforms.
> I love Linux, but it would not exist without corporate sponsors.
Of course it would, for it already did. It might not be as polished, and there would be more issues with hardware, but it would certainly still exist, and even thrive. Because enough people want it and can put in the manpower to create it.
> but there's really no possibility a social media platform (or the internet at-large) could adopt a similar strategy.
By decentralizing it could.
> Hosting is expensive
Decentralizing would work around that.
> Blind authoritarianism is ironically one of it's strongest defenses.
The strongest defense is GPL, because if a company tried to do that then the same thing that happened with nginx would happen.
> The decentralized internet, the blockchain, the darkweb and I2P all need someone to pay for hosting costs.
With a properly designed protocol these costs would be neglibile.
talldayo|1 year ago
The decentralized internet, the blockchain, the darkweb and I2P all need someone to pay for hosting costs. If you don't get a corporation in your pocket early and fast, then you won't be able to scale your website reliably. It's a common constraint across most networked platforms.
DEADMINCE|1 year ago
Of course it would, for it already did. It might not be as polished, and there would be more issues with hardware, but it would certainly still exist, and even thrive. Because enough people want it and can put in the manpower to create it.
> but there's really no possibility a social media platform (or the internet at-large) could adopt a similar strategy.
By decentralizing it could.
> Hosting is expensive
Decentralizing would work around that.
> Blind authoritarianism is ironically one of it's strongest defenses.
The strongest defense is GPL, because if a company tried to do that then the same thing that happened with nginx would happen.
> The decentralized internet, the blockchain, the darkweb and I2P all need someone to pay for hosting costs.
With a properly designed protocol these costs would be neglibile.