It’s clear that change is overdue. Right now, the platform owners are the ones paying for everything, but they don’t create or control the content. The ones creating and controlling the content aren’t the platform owners. The people using the platform, including those using APIs, get value from it, but they don’t pay anything. App developers put in their time and money, and then get value back from the platform.
Ads help support the platform, but they don’t always line up with what the platform stands for. As time goes on, corporate imperatives are going to push harder to get more and more value from the platform, to the detriment of the other stakeholder.
An open source platform, with an OSI license, and a federated system is a good foundation. New methods, like DAOs and blockchains, could be used to govern and support the infrastructure. Smart contracts could be used to handle the exchange of value between apps, APIs, and the platform.
What started with Reddit could turn into something really cool. It could leverage the latest tech to make sure everyone involved gets their fair share.
Interesting insights. I can imagine, that Reddit started something, they could hardly stop and would’ve needed a pretty big overhaul of things to work into such a way. I think, if Aaron Swartz was still around, the platform could’ve made a right turn some time ago. But greedy investors keep making pressure to make profit.
It’s clear that change is overdue. Right now, the platform owners are the ones paying for everything, but they don’t create or control the content. The ones creating and controlling the content aren’t the platform owners. The people using the platform, including those using APIs, get value from it, but they don’t pay anything. App developers put in their time and money, and then get value back from the platform.
Ads help support the platform, but they don’t always line up with what the platform stands for. As time goes on, corporate imperatives are going to push harder to get more and more value from the platform, to the detriment of the other stakeholder.
An open source platform, with an OSI license, and a federated system is a good foundation. New methods, like DAOs and blockchains, could be used to govern and support the infrastructure. Smart contracts could be used to handle the exchange of value between apps, APIs, and the platform.
What started with Reddit could turn into something really cool. It could leverage the latest tech to make sure everyone involved gets their fair share.
Interesting insights. I can imagine, that Reddit started something, they could hardly stop and would’ve needed a pretty big overhaul of things to work into such a way. I think, if Aaron Swartz was still around, the platform could’ve made a right turn some time ago. But greedy investors keep making pressure to make profit.
But i like your ideas, we need people like you.