The #fediverse needs to come to terms with one thing: on content platforms, chronological ordering is probably good for your subscription feeds, but for the #discovery feed the average user actually WANTS an #algorithm.
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If we then come up with some great idea for say a client side algorithm, or some alternative ad networking technology, you can then wrap that up in a plan for an organization and apply for funding.
From that you can start figuring out the various ways to make a business off the resulting systems.
But they have to be open, give power to the user and allow for competition. This is why #OpenSource is so important, because it levels the playing field.
So if we really believe in a free market, we should believe that markets being made cannot be free, for the user, the producer or the publisher. They can verily be systems that are predatory and exploitative of one or more parts.
We cannot exploit the user, the creator or the publisher. This cannot be overstated. In the west it's gotten too normal to centralise ownership and to exploit people. This is something we have to be mindful of.
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So if we really believe in a free market, we should believe that markets being made cannot be free, for the user, the producer or the publisher. They can verily be systems that are predatory and exploitative of one or more parts.
We cannot exploit the user, the creator or the publisher. This cannot be overstated. In the west it's gotten too normal to centralise ownership and to exploit people. This is something we have to be mindful of.
