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Like any other creator, these developers create work that is intertwined with, and influenced by, their users, but it’s not collaborative in the way that we typically think of online communities.
Nadia Eghbal • Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
Slashdot thus employed a fluid system of mutual endorsement rather than a Debian-style electoral republic, but it similarly showed that an open, dynamic system of user empowerment could manage the content on a large platform in ways that generally satisfied its users.
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
If a fairly good hacker is worth $80,000 a year at a big company, then a smart hacker working very hard without any corporate bullshit to slow him down should be able to do work worth about $3 million a year.
Paul Graham • Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
The publication-less internet is an absolute Petri dish of idiotic shit, and for every Discourse Blog or Defector (pretty good, trying our best, really just want to give people good and true things to read) there is a far larger and angrier The Free Press (doing a low-effort 2010 Fox News impression in service of the same general goal of bigotry), ... See more
Jack Crosbie • Soon Will Come a Day That None of This Exists
Hyperlinks subvert hierarchy.
McKee Jake • The Cluetrain Manifesto (10th Anniversary Edition)
The Myth of Decentralization and Lies about Web 2.0 · EmilyGorcenski.com
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