Post: Look at Twitter(X) wasting most of the value of a large global community they could enable and are not
Agnes Pockels is called a “citizen scientist”. What that really means is she was a woman and not considered “a real male scientist in a society controlled and manipulated by men for their own benefit”.
How many people are forced into “citizen scientist” because they are black, immigrants, poor, have to work for a living, cannot afford exorbitant college and university fees for nowadays really poor education and limited job opportunities. Any time a few control the futures of many, all the people who are not writers with editors, or paid to do something, are called “not quite as good as us”. More things in the world are done because they need to be done, not because they are paid. If the personal efforts of all humans is accounted, the global GDP is thousands of times larger than what is counted in monetary means. It impoverished the human species to think so narrowly, but ALL groups do it.
How much is ignored now, it if does not come with a stamp from a legacy group? Look at the Internet – Billions are working HARD and sharing. But it is not formalized, and it is not recognized. Look at ResearchGate, Nature Communities, GitHub, YouTube and hundreds of thousands of informal groups – all doing a shallow job of enabling. I had hoped “AI” methods would help, but they quickly gave up and only sell chats for $20 a month.
A site can spend and make billions and still be “informal” if they really do not know what they are doing in global human society where the future stretches now for billions of years.
Filed as (Look at Twitter(X) wasting most of the value of a large global community they could enable and are not)
Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation
