Social Platform Ownership & Governance
The nuts & bolts of how online social spaces are funded, owned, and controlled
Social Platform Ownership & Governance
How to Build Governable Spaces for Online Communities
colorado.edu
Kickstarter seed funding
Public Benefit Corporations vs. Non-Profits | Harvard Business Services, Inc.
Rick Belldelawareinc.comFoundation for Public Code
publiccode.net
it's a mistake to think there's some perfect institutional design out there that's going to create the just world that we want. Whatever institutional design you have, humans are humans, and humans are going to strategically manipulate those institutions to try to achieve their ends. And there are going to be inequalities, power disparities, and... See more
Erdogan gov't pushes people to use 'Next' app as Turkey moves ...
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Turkish national social media platform. Re: Government control of social media - it’s not enough to be “publicly” owned if the values of transparency, algorithmic choice, etc aren’t there.
Creating an Independent Public Ledger of Credentials (PLC) Directory Organization | Bluesky
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When a platform is designed to suppress your reach while amplifying extremists, staying isn’t pragmatic. It’s masochistic.
This all fundamentally misunderstands the nature of power on these platforms. Success on social media is about building community. And you can’t build community if someone else has all the control over how that community works.
This all fundamentally misunderstands the nature of power on these platforms. Success on social media is about building community. And you can’t build community if someone else has all the control over how that community works.