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I wonder if it's possible to take the Wikipedia model (open source, non profit entity) and use that to build a social network.

>>Rodeoc+(OP)
I always thought it would be cool if every NPR/PBS station also ran Fediverse nodes of mastodon or whatever the Fediverse version of Facebook is. Would provide a public-funded option with more transparency

>>novaga+d
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>>novaga+d
The BBC started running their own instance as an experiment, and it seems that they will not keep it running: https://mstdn.social/@isleofmandan/111775751771437531

>>novaga+d
Yeah, I like the federated idea, but I think it had its chance when Elon took over Twitter and they never managed to capture the exodus of users in any significant way. The barrier to entry was just too high (but they have taken great steps to reduce the complexity).

>>Rodeoc+(OP)
Wikipedia is special in that 1) it's very cacheable so the infrastructure costs are low and 2) it's not too expensive in terms of development since I assume people don't expect many features.

>>Rodeoc+d3
Well my experience with Mastodon has been that it's almost entirely tech people who are joining mastodon for the technical novelty. If every NPR/PBS station launched a social network concurrently, then people would quickly find other people on the platform to connect with

>>vdaea+k5
It also has a better charity story, because "summarizing the knowledge of mankind" seems a tag more lofty than a social network.

(Even if that's not the case...)

>>Rodeoc+(OP)
Like WT Social?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WT_Social

https://wt.social/