From 3628c4698e8fbfdb5ebca47d13e29e4b2a597014 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kathleen Fitzpatrick <3170201+kfitz@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Fri, 22 May 2026 07:59:47 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] line break; enshittification --- lowerdecks260521.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/lowerdecks260521.md b/lowerdecks260521.md index b3eac52a..90b156f2 100644 --- a/lowerdecks260521.md +++ b/lowerdecks260521.md @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ Note: Knowledge Commons is a multi-functional network supporting collaboration a Note: Most importantly, the Commons repository, KCWorks, allows members to upload and share their work openly and to have the DOIs and other metadata attached to it that render it an accessible, interoperable part of the scholarly ecosystem. -![Screenshot of about.hcommons.org](images/kc-about-260517.png) +![Screenshot of about.hcommons.org](images/kc-about-260517.png)
about.hcommons.org Note: Knowledge Commons has developed to this point thanks to generous support from the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, and several other funders. Sustaining the Commons, however, requires us to become less dependent on grant funding, which as we all know all too well is predominantly project-oriented, and instead to seek the institutional investments that can sustain our day-to-day operations. We offer a range of services -- including hosting a Commons instance branded for your institution and its members -- that we hope will inspire such investment. But this model requires us to ensure that our values, purpose, and vision remain at the heart of our work. And so we have a participatory governance structure that enables both individual users and our institutional partners to have a voice in the project's future, we have developed network policies that emphasize inclusion and openness, and we are committed to transparency in our finances, and most importantly to remaining not-for-profit in perpetuity. @@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ Note: This kind of openness -- not just of the tools but of the operating princi ![Doctorow on walled gardens](images/walledgardens.png)pluralistic.net/2023/08/06/fool-me-twice-we-dont-get-fooled-again/ -Note: Doctorow's argument about enshittification arose in thinking about the decline of Twitter and the damage it has caused, but he went on to note his resistance to the new big alternatives like Threads and Blue Sky, which remain walled gardens even as they attempt to benefit from federation. He points to the brilliance and creativity that so many people poured into Twitter, noting that “the only thing worse than having wasted all that time and energy would be to have wasted it —  and learned _nothing_.” +Note: Doctorow's argument about enshittification isn't just that everything is starting to suck, though; it's that we keep getting enticed by centralized providers into using platforms that will inevitably trend toward sucking, in no small part because they're walled gardens that draw energy in without allowing it to leave. Hence his resistance to Twitter alternatives like Threads and BlueSky, noting that “the only thing worse than having wasted all that time and energy would be to have wasted it —  and learned _nothing_.” ## walled gardens