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While a few things about “Haven Social” have been promised to be better than your typical proprietary social media app (like the revocable discovery that, even better, you can and should turn off entirely), it is still a silo site. It’s a proprietary and commercial web forum. I think joining up is a bad idea. I didn’t like Cohost either but this does a lot of things even worse than Cohost did when it comes to governance. I’ve said before that I think this kind of product should be illegal—while…

The single biggest myth around advertising in public spaces and in public transit is that “it generates money for the municipality”, “it pays for the busses and trains”. The truth is that they do not generate resources. They only use resources and quite a lot of it. Oh, they move around money alright. Into the pockets of the viewscreen company that put them up. Never let them say that the screens make money or fund our transit. That is a scam. Now, I’m sure quite a lot of folks are thinking…