Linux/GNU, Wikipedia, WorldWideWeb: these are existence proof, at meaningful scale/impact, for something...
There's a qualitative difference between "open" efforts, and "conventional" organisation.. qualitative. Wikipedia, for example, co-exists concurrently with twitter, FB, news feeds and advertising-optimised ranking algorithms. Consider Wikipedia during the "truth crisis" era or whatever it is that social media's blooming has created. It is affected, but there is way more dignity and resilience in wikipedia's handling than Alphabet, FB, etc.
Something similar is true of the web itself, email, etc. Whatsapp, even IG, snapchat or whatnot are more or less in the same realm as email. Email isn't without surveillance, lock in, spam or antipattern issues... but the protocol itself isn't a primary belligerent, as it is with proprietary messaging platforms like FB's.
In any case, it's worth trying to export these examples to other realms.
There's a qualitative difference between "open" efforts, and "conventional" organisation.. qualitative. Wikipedia, for example, co-exists concurrently with twitter, FB, news feeds and advertising-optimised ranking algorithms. Consider Wikipedia during the "truth crisis" era or whatever it is that social media's blooming has created. It is affected, but there is way more dignity and resilience in wikipedia's handling than Alphabet, FB, etc.
Something similar is true of the web itself, email, etc. Whatsapp, even IG, snapchat or whatnot are more or less in the same realm as email. Email isn't without surveillance, lock in, spam or antipattern issues... but the protocol itself isn't a primary belligerent, as it is with proprietary messaging platforms like FB's.
In any case, it's worth trying to export these examples to other realms.