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Re:Cory Doctorow: Platform Capitalism and the Curse of “Ensh... by dynamorando on Thursday July 06, 2023 @08:42AM (#36614900)
I blogged about this yesterday after seeing a similar post on HN

https://dynamorando.pages.dev/blog/the-public-web/

Though I am not sure the political will exists.

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Re:Cory Doctorow: Platform Capitalism and the Curse of “Ensh... by sanderjd on Thursday July 06, 2023 @09:19AM (#36615298)
Government funding of generic user generated content hosting is a terrible idea, IMO.

But I do quite like your proposal for how it could be accomplished technically through federation. It at least sidesteps the problem of the government building it through their fundamentally broken technology "procurement" processes.

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