Ehm, it is hard to make social platforms work. I work in technology, as a software engineer and am paid to keep our core services running. It is a full time job with some of the best minds around me.
Luckily, I work in a sector that mainly sees traffic 9-5 m-f, but social platforms need hands on deck 24/7/365.
The answer is just building strong communities that give a shit about building good internet spaces
Like I said in my post, interests fade. Most open source projects I've seen fail. What keeps a core team around over the years, most of the time, isn't giving a shit.
What keeps a core team around over the years, most of the time, isn’t giving a shit.
It absolutely is.
Of course money is important and we need to support our communities, infrastructures, and so on, but if it's money is what's keeping a person working on a thing, they will get a better offer and move on. Like all the cryptobros who'd been pushing web3/DAO crap for years and now switched to pushing AI hype without batting an eye.
Or they will start exploiting their project for profit, to the detriment of the community, as we've seen with so, so many DAO-based cryptocurrency projects.
What is it then?
Most closed source, profit driven projects fail or end eventually too. Customers find other things to buy. Employees look for other lines of work.
Incentivizing behaviour don't usually lead to motivated people, just obligated ones.
Interests fade and so some communities/instances will die off and others will grow. We shouldn't try to fight organic growth and death. That leads to unnatural centralization and making the purpose of an organization simply that organization's continued existence.
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Get that crypto shit out of here lmao. The answer is just building strong communities that give a shit about building good internet spaces. It's political, and that's not a bad thing. It's not hard, and it doesn't need to be profitable to work.
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