Workshop OpenTech(AUC)
work@mishavelthuis.nl
Thu 5 June 2025
Multiple choice
These slides
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We are wasps and fish
platform traps
Economists call this a “collective action problem” and it’s a specific kind of switching cost: to switch away from Facebook you must either figure out how to convince everyone you talk to on Facebook to switch with you (a high cost) or forfeit your relationship with them (also a high cost).
Doctorow, C. (2024). The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation. Verso Books.
The deal of IP
The state (we) protect(s) the inventor's sole right of usage …
… at the exchange of the information necessary to replicate the invention …
… which will be made public after the patent expires.
When is it enough?
A long time ago
Forced interoperability
Decentralization all the way
Geopolitical reality check
Extra reason to leave NOW
Big questions
Platform feudalism
Web3 capitalism
Fediverse ecosocialism
Let's start building
the ships to jump to
Instant messaging
Social media
Document management
AI
Search engines and browsers
