President Biden will not take a cognitive test as part of his upcoming physical exam, the White House confirmed Monday. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stated that Biden's physician, Dr. Kevin O'Connor, does not believe a cognitive test is necessary.
    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOPM
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      1 year ago

      That’s the beauty of open source platforms, the dynamics are very different. With a commercial company you’re stuck with whatever the company decides, and that’s what drives enshittification. Companies ultimately exist to make money for the owners and the shareholders. The users aren’t actual stakeholders on these platforms in any meaningful sense.

      On the other hand, open platforms are developed by regular people because they want to have publicly owned social spaces. Even when a project starts going in a bad direction then anybody can fork the code and take the project in a different direction, and anybody can run a server the way they like.

      I wrote an article on the subject a little while back, talking about these dynamics in more detail https://justiceinternationale.com/articles/2020-12-02-we-must-own-our-tools/

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOPM
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          1 year ago

          This isn’t a hypothetical, Mastodon has millions of users now and it’s working fine. Larger instances run on donation, and it works fine. It only takes a small percentage of users to contribute at the end of the day. The nature of federation also helps amortize costs. You don’t need to have millions of users all on the same server. It’s a different model where you have many smaller servers with thousands of users, and there’s overlap between them. This is also how internet worked during the time of BBS and IRC. The model of big companies running walled gardens is an aberration, and it’s not how things were meant to work. The internet took a wrong turn for a period, and now it’s self correcting.