I keep circling around the current media landscape (social, cultural, music/movies/literature) and I've wound up with an idea I can't execute on, but I want out in the world so maybe someone else can try it.
These are the core ideas motivating me:
1) We can't trust "big tech" cloud services. "The cloud" is just "other people's computers" and we cannot trust those other people with our shared music/movies/books or even our documents (think Google Drive or Dropbox).
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@audAsta [AMP] I went on a thread about this back in December, except I was thinking about media streaming: https://ruby.social/@flashesofpanic/115713560082616054 I love your idea of a cooperative of laid-off tech workers supporting public services like this, it closes some of the gaps in my ideas. (Also, a co-op starting with library-type services might have fewer compliance hoops to start with, but the licensing issue is still a question in my mind. Maybe just document sharing and cloud storage to start?)