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    All four of those are honestly really great ideas, but I don't have high confidence in any of them happening.
    – Silvio Mayolo
    Commented Jun 8, 2023 at 2:20
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    @SilvioMayolo: The first step towards achieving a goal is conceiving it. The second is putting it forward. The third is getting people to adopt it as a goal. Making it the demand of a strike may be the 6th or 7th step, but - at least I'm trying to help advance from one step to the next. Let the strikers decide how far they think they can go.
    – einpoklum
    Commented Jun 8, 2023 at 6:29
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    "But then we can't make money"
    – OrangeDog
    Commented Jun 8, 2023 at 7:58
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    @OrangeDog: 1. "You make your money off of other things anyway, not the network itself: Ads, jobs, custom installations, etc." 2. "Really? Show us. Open your books and business plans. Otherwise it's just empty rhetoric." 3. "If you don't make enough money without hurting the network, spin it out into a not-for-profit entity and rearrange your business. If that non-proft needs money, it should not be much of a problem to fundraise from the community to maintain and develop the SE network."
    – einpoklum
    Commented Jun 8, 2023 at 8:27
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    Excellent suggestions, but humanity has a deadly tendency to follow those who should not lead, i.e., the masses believe CEOs are the appropriate decision-makers, when that role now is simply that of a parasite maximizing personal gain at the expense of the public and employees (loss of Titan submersible is glaring example). The history of evolution is necessarily bloody and our current insanity will not endure, but it is going to be painful for a while.
    – Dalton Bentley
    Commented Jun 23, 2023 at 14:30
  • However noble your ideas might be, please never claim "100% support" on behalf of other people. You don't know it, and you don't represent all of "us users".
    – Zeus
    Commented Jun 28, 2023 at 7:37
  • It's not "100% of users", it's "100% of the possible support".
    – einpoklum
    Commented Jun 28, 2023 at 12:59
  • The platform isn't yours, it has never been yours, and it won't be yours, even though you start identifying yourself as being a part of it. I actually find it very arrogant to demand ownership over something purely because you like it, so I guess the 100% claim isn't true. It's your choice to put that much time and heart into this. Don't depend on a platform over which you have no control, you could've known that from the start.
    – Nearoo
    Commented Mar 4, 2024 at 16:24
  • @Nearoo: The platform is one thing, and the network which rests upon it is another thing. Of course they are inter-dependent. As for the platform - that's a philosophical debate about the legitimacy of intellectual property etc., but it's irrelevant, since my my suggestions only regard the network and its administration. The network, however, was created by the users (especially the moderators). It has been a collective social project which SE Inc. has facilitated, and to which it has contributed, but it is certainly not "theirs".
    – einpoklum
    Commented Mar 4, 2024 at 18:51
  • Have you checked out Codidact, btw? Seems like the way the Codidact Foundation is set up satisfies most if not all of what you ask for here.
    – Karl Knechtel
    Commented Mar 5, 2024 at 21:00
  • @KarlKnechtel: It's an interesting backup plan in case this platform explodes. But almost all of the information and users are here... also, this post was not a personal wish list, but a suggestion to a collective.
    – einpoklum
    Commented Mar 5, 2024 at 21:16