Comment by positron26
3 months ago
Mobile OSs are very consumer focused. I have criticized the FSF for, in there lengthily argued ways, abandoning the consumer.
You have to commercialize openness if you want the muscle of the consumer to be able to produce it.
Short presentation of the basic concept: https://youtu.be/SO46oEdlkY8
Some things with massive value in excess of the cost of production cannot be pursued by capital nor bought by the individual. Your choices are government, non-profit, or something in between all three. PrizeForge aims to be between all three and to completely change how we do consumer open source, incidentally bringing billions of dollars into making it.
That's a very clear vision on how to solve this kind of funding/cooperation problem outside of government and mission-focused nonprofits. And incidentally would be an existential threat to surveillance capitalism should it reach critical mass.
BTW your password-based signup flow isn't working (on iOS Safari at least).
:-) Yeah. Only SSO was working because while email would double my users, I was doing an experiment and looking for at least some signs of life. Doubling nothing would be useless.
Turns out, some new enrollments topped up their accounts and dropped off before the final step that makes it show up on the home page, so now I know it's something, and something is worth doubling.
> existential threat to surveillance capitalism
Should I buy a gun? I'm an American.
> Should I buy a gun? I'm an American.
No, that's unnecessary. Nobody will be taking you that seriously.
> some new enrollments topped up their accounts and dropped off before the final step that makes it show up on the home page
Did they actually put money in?
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