CIRCLE WITH A DOT

You are a provider of a large communication platform used by millions of people worldwide. You have a problem with harassment, radicalisation, and illegal activity that governments are starting to be concerned by. Do you:Commit to hiring a large team of moderators and engineers who will add community-safety features, under penalty of liability for harms to your users that were preventable if you focused slightly less on short-term profit at all costs?Persuade governments that the solution is ’ age verification’. You get to scan government-issued ID, tie their profile with real identity so it’s much more valuable when you sell it, and also refuse service to the people who weren’t going to buy stuff from the ads you host because they are too young to have jobs?

Some folks on the Verona project just shared with me the Lightweight Fault Isolation (LFI) project, which looks like really exciting work!

@david_chisnall The entity that improves the code base the most, and has the better tool, the better support, will be the surviving fork. Especially if "competing" forks are going to take patches forward/back. If one does not care about what the other fork adds, then one is good, but if all users leave..... becomes a question of why one is working on code, who it is for, which might be maybe just yourself; but then also why one opens it.And open source, the worst part likely is the users