This is not a bad take. As a young person who geeked out on progressive technology initiatives I've seen them stagnate over the years while new initiatives have come in that don't embody quite the same values as the old guard, but are more modern and engaging. FSF could look to the FSFE for guidance, or maybe even a takeover.
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Subway Tooter. It's the most customizable of the Mastodon Apps. I also often just use the mastodon.social mobile browser site is quite good. You could probably turn it into a PWA.
At this point with OpenCollective and LiberaPay being the hot items in the FOSS world I'm not sure there is a large enough appetite for yet another foundation. I agree with you though, that foundation and sponsoring of areas noone wants to tackle is what would be needed. Shuttleworth was our best hope at getting this done when he funded the development of Ubuntu for years. That was a strategic mess though (NIH-syndrome, lack of direction, treating Linux like a single-entity and not a community of ideas.) I think the other guy who might be our current best hope is the super rich philanthropist who funds linux projects through Blue Systems might be our current best hope (beyond actually organizing and gaining consensus as a community.)
I think we may have missed the boat on it though for the next several years. Deepin (ie. Tongxin/Uniontech) are investing literally >100 million USD to develop Deepin OS based on Debian. They've hired 4000 staff in 2020. It's only a matter of time before DDE becomes the premiere Linux Desktop environment. It'll be one of those things typical of Chinese software where some things will be proprietary. People will complain, but generally it will be superior to any other Linux Desktop. Then we'll continue with the diehard XFCE crew, etc. playing in their sandbox while the general public has 4.5 options (MacOS, Windows, ChromeOS, Deepin OS, Linux Variants (the 0.5)) Of course, that's how many in the Linux community want it to be so there's no reason to force them otherwise.
Agreed. This is a foolish request. If there's progress to be made it would be through a separate foundation with that mandate, but the community is too fractured to make such a thing happen. IMO just donate to the desktop distro you like. KDE and gnome are the largest. I'd say KDE is more resource efficient organizationally.
You would need to look into economic and business models of decentralized platforms to find out what would best fit for peertube. If YouTube's business model is based on their ability to collect data from users in a centralized space and sell that in the form of advertising, to mimic that model you would need a system to distribute revenue in a decentralized way. Similar to an electric smart grid, think of data flows in the same way and power flows. I can't think of a model besides that that would allow decentralized video to scale to the level of Youtube. Maybe a platform co-op model where everyone pays a subscription to maintain the servers, and to incentivize creators a pool of revenue is distributed based on view counts, while still allowing for donation buttons on user pages.
I just keep a note with all the shows I want to watch and check on the list occasionally and use google.
But here's a FOSS app https://schizoduckie.github.io/DuckieTV/
No idea if it's good or not. Curious if others have a good solution.
From a reader perspective I find it to be more cathartic to downvote an idea i disagree with than educational as a post maker that my opinion is unpopular. Especially if someone indiscriminately starts downvoting be because of a grudge. If anything it makes me think "wow these people are ignorant." This is admittedly self-centered, but with anonymity on the internet, and a lot of the half-baked raw thoughts that get shared on forums like this, I get the perspective that's what most posters would feel like when they receive downvotes. I've certainly witnessed it on Lemmy where people make angry comments calling out downvoters for downvoting instead of replying with counterpoints. I agree with your points in theory but from a behavioural perspective I think anonymous downvoting might discourage courage to post new or controversial ideas.
Out of curiosity why would it be a potentially bad idea? Someone downvoted all of my replies to a controversial post I made in a thread immediately after I made the posts. I'm curious if it was the same person or multiple people. Complexity aside, would knowing who downvoted you encourage harassment of the voter? On discourse for example you can see who upvoted and downvoted you. On reddit this isn't the case.
Banyan Project has been vaporware for 6+ years unfortunately. Look at Taz.de or La Marea for examples of working media coops.
Yes, Nazis are bad.
I'd just point this article out by Chris Hedges for why I disagree with Tuskys actions:
https://www.mintpressnews.com/chris-hedges-cancel-culture-where-liberalism-goes-to-die/275373/
“They were students in or recent graduates of rich and leading colleges and universities,” he writes of the audience. “They were mean and tough but somehow, I sensed that there wasn’t a radical in the bunch. For if they were radical how could they laugh at a poor ignorant farmer who didn’t know his left hand from his right? If they had been radical they would have been weeping, asking what had produced him. And if they had been radical they would not have been sitting, soaking up a film produced for their edification and enjoyment by the Establishment of the establishment — CBS.”
Didn't he get cancelled for defending the impactful work of someone who got #metoo'd? I can't wait till cancel culture ends, it's a beast the rich upper class unleashed and couldn't contain when it attacked their own.