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benwerd
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About benwerd
Helping to build communities on the open web.
Previously: ProPublica, The 19th*, ForUsAll, Unlock, Matter Ventures, Medium, Known, Latakoo, Elgg.
Personal homepage: https://werd.io
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/benwerd; my proof: https://keybase.io/benwerd/sigs/YK-QOCNnsiG6ADHQHU5pAARzJFek-ajUnq2wvcDCRk0 ]
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Hi! I started a startup, Known, that did exactly this in 2014, explicitly as part of the indieweb movement. The open source code is still around. The trick is the economics here. A…
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Oof, this was a tough read for me. For example, he mentions reading about genocide and not doing anything about it. In a democratic state the thing you do about it - aside from giv…
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