Post #1985187
2026-03-24 21:11 UTC
@raganwald @ilovecomputers
I'm coming to believe that the Internet as we knew it from say 1990 to 2010 was the anomaly. Nothing that powerful or that useful can survive as a public good in a capitalist system.
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@ilovecomputers@xoxo.zone 2026-03-24 21:32
@bmac@jawns.club @raganwald@social.bau-ha.us it was the era that gave us Wikipedia, Mozilla, and the Internet Archive. There definitely was a trend of philanthropy amongst the Silicon Valley capitalists that’s just not there anymore