Quadratic funding matching small donors creating incredible public goods! Community priorities reflected perfectly in capital allocation. @gitcoin @ClrFund @OptimismFND solving coordination problems. #QuadraticFunding #PublicGoods https://zurl.co/jlWH5
#PublicGoods
Which of these organizations do you have a positive opinion of?
#poll #FLOSS #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #PublicGoods #linux #GNOME #RedHat #Proton #ProtonMail #InternetArchive
Which of these organizations do you have a positive opinion of?
#poll #FLOSS #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #PublicGoods #Mozilla #Firefox
Which of these organizations do you have a positive opinion of?
#poll #FLOSS #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #PublicGoods #Wikipedia #Wikimedia #linux #digitalRights
What do you think of the funding model proposed by https://snowdrift.coop/
They had a talk about it at LibrePlanet 2022 https://framatube.org/w/ssYsun1bEXuL1nm5cT9ckw
Ms. Dasia Sade
The privatisation of everything. Or, what if democracy was a subscription service?
Privatisation slashes wages and harms services. You end up getting less while paying more.
Running the government like a business IS what's going on. The business model is the problem.
"Efficiency" is code for power-grab.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEtEvnhziPM
#privatisation #publicgoods
Current administration priorities, to be nuanced, might not be intended *specifically* to kill a huge number of us and our families, but that is absolutely the consequence of MAGA. #dismantlement #disruption #plunder #privatization #democide #publichealth #health #healthNews #kakistocracy #plutocracy #publicResourcesArePublicGoods #publicGoods #theftOfPublicGoods #theftOfPublicGoodsIsTheirPoint
The early birds tickets for the @publicspaces Conference 2025 are available now!
đź“… Friday, June 13th 2025
Shaping our Digital Future
More ℹ️: https://conference.publicspaces.net
#internet #socialmedia #democracy #disinformation #ai #publicgoods
Governments and nonprofits should pay for public goods.
Public goods are like a lighthouse. Every boat in the harbor benefits, whether they pay for it or not. And if a boat sees the lighthouse, that doesn't limit the number of other boats who can see it.
News is a public good. Healthcare is a public good. Justice is a public good. Science is a public good. Literacy is a public good.
The full list is much longer.
The state plays an important role in the provision of #publicgoods such as #infrastructure, which the market cannot always provide on its own. #Germany should abolish or at least reform its #debtbrake so that it can properly invest in these public goods @b_eichengreen interview @derspiegel
Boa tarde, pessoal. Segue uma contribuição sobre o processo de transformação digital do Estado na convergência entre #DPIs, dados e #IA.
Como sempre, aberto ao debate.
https://teletime.com.br/24/10/2024/a-transformacao-digital-do-estado-e-suas-armadilhas/
#NetworkSovereignty #Commons-based/#mutualistic communities built on #interdependency, shared public goods. In #SOAM residence programme we explored collective data stewardship over profit.
#PublicGoods #Blockchain #Governance #Cosmolocal
https://mdpi.com/1999-5903/16/10/361
#AI #PublicAI #Mozilla #PublicGoods #NonProfits: "Today, we are unveiling a bold vision with a sweeping action plan for Public AI. Mozilla is calling for a robust ecosystem of initiatives that promote public goods, public orientation, and public use throughout every step of AI development and deployment. It’s not enough for some AI resources to be more accessible, or for companies to support a few token “AI for good” side projects. We need a whole parallel AI ecosystem that can run on non-commercial incentives, where openness enables projects to build on top of each other, and where the total scope of these initiatives is a meaningful counterweight to the private AI ecosystem.
We are calling on everyone to help shape Public AI. Developers should create open source AI models and tools that are competitive with private AI initiatives; policymakers should support the data, tools and workforce development to make AI truly usable for public interest applications; and the public should support the products and services that emerge from Public AI by contributing data, engagement and support to this ecosystem.
At Mozilla, we’re committed to doing our part by building key parts of the Public AI ecosystem. We will help build public alternatives for the data needed in AI development by doubling down on our Common Voice platform, further expanding access to multilingual voice data to train AI models that represent the diversity of languages around the world."
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/ai/public-ai-counterpoint/
đź“Ł Hot Take: Public Goods should be a net Good for the Public.
#ClimateDiary We are visiting cousins and are at the local park.
I truly love public parks, seeing families, parties, so much shared happiness, everyone together outside. What more do you need.
PS: the soundscape too, all the children’s and adults’ voices - just wonderful
Why won't some people pay for news?
Despite a great deal of jawboning and gnashing of teeth about the state of news media and possible remedies there are a number of dimensions of the problem and potential opportunities I rarely see discussed.
https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/867c94d0ba87013aca41448a5b29e257
I'd add to my 2022 comments the following:
When the NY Times hardened its paywall notably in 2020, front-page appearances on Hacker News fell to a quarter of their previous trend. There was no policy change at HN, just voting behaviour on submissions. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36918251 (Own data based on a 2023 scrape of all HN front-page activity.)
Broadcast / programmed television seems to be undergoing a similar transition as occurred to newspapers in the past decade. See: "Traditional TV is Dying" https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/aug/08/traditional-tv-is-dying-can-networks-pivot-and-survive (2024).
My "short reading list" is available via archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20230610061138/https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/7k7l4m/media_advertising_sustainability_externalities/.
Wikipedia offers an alternative model for news presentation especially for complex and long-developing stories (the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami, Covid-19, the 2024 UK far-right riots), see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41260647
Most successful media have had either government support (e.g., the BBC, Deutschlandfunk) or a strong multi-tier financing model.
Of the last, the Economist suggests a commercial basis being roughly by thirds subscriptions, advertising, and bespoke research through the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). Public broadcasting in the US (NPR, PBS) benefit by member support, commercial underwriting (now little different from ads), and some government support (mostly to local stations). Traditionally within the US commercial publication revenue was based on banner ads, classifieds, legal notices (effectively an obligate support of newspapers by law imposed on private citizens and firms), subscriptions, and news-stand sales.
Currently, the ISP as at least a major payment gateway seems a highly underutilised opportunity. What translates to an Internet age is clearly still being worked out, though at the cost of many established institutions, large and small, failing entirely.
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41249571
#News #Journalism #Newspapers #PublicGoods #Wikipedia
Edit: Added NYT paywall year from placeholder text.
For anyone at DWeb Camp this year I'm running a session at 4:30pm today on how we can build Internet-scale public goods -- transparent, scalable, democratically-governed cloud applications:
Come by and let's work together to figure this out! #DWebCamp #PublicGoods
"Zoë Hitzig | What is quadratic funding?" - A general mechanism for funding a decentralized self-organizing ecosystem of #PublicGoods
The mechanism described in this video can be used to solve many modern problems such as news media finance, #FOSS software development funding, scientific research and egalitarian campaign finance. News is severely underfunded and is critical for effective #democracy. Campaign finance tends to be plutocratic.
#InformationAccess #PublicGoods #Democracy #Libraries: "Democracy means public, open spaces where civic workers are there to help members of the public navigate to and make sense of information that they need. Democracy means connected communities where people work with one another to understand the world around themselves. A search engine can be a useful tool, but Google's irrelationality goes back at least to their conception of their mission as "organiz[ing] the world's information and mak[ing] it universally accessible and useful." As Hoffmann and Bloom convincingly argue, the very framing of that goal as something that can be achieved by one company, with impersonal technology, is inconsistent with meaningful access for many (most?) of the people in the world.
So, as we look for ways to repair our information ecosystem in the wake of the depredations of the current AI hype-driven deluge of synthetic media, a key step should be shoring up support for library systems and learning from the practices, traditions, and current research of librarians and library and information scientists."
https://buttondown.email/maiht3k/archive/information-access-as-a-public-good/
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