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by max_ 1059 days ago
Yes of course it's possible.

What we need is a new philosophical movement accompanied by both technical solutions and economic infrastructure/incentives.

The reason why the Free Software Movement failed was that it did not account for economic incentives. Developers need to eat, have housing, and pay of health care.

The Fediverse will also fail because it too doesn't account for the economic realities of running servers for billions of users. (I have seen several Fediverse instances shutdown because the admin got overwhelmed financially & psychologically).

This new philosophical idea would in my opinion have.

1. A rebuild of browser's, operating systems, phones and Computers. In a way that would make them difficult to abuse by third party apps.

2. Economic incentives/infrastructure that help facilitate Opensource work

The benefits would definitely a mean faster pace of innovation and technology that is less abusive to people.