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Please join us in congratulating John D. Boy (U Leiden) on finalising his important project from cohort 3 “What comes after #FOSS?”: https://infrastructureinsights.fund/projects/what-comes-after-foss/
Quick summary:
The report is a corrective rather than a manifesto: retiring the assumption that peer production (in #foss is inherently democratizing, without romanticizing, but closely observing, w

14 views Please join us in congratulating John D. Boy (U Leiden) on finalising his important project from cohort 3 “What comes after #FOSS?”: https://infrastructureinsights.fund/projects/what-comes-after-foss/ Quick summary: The report is a corrective rather than a manifesto: retiring the assumption that peer production (in #foss is inherently democratizing, without romanticizing, but closely observing, w

{🚨 New report alert II } Infrastructure in Recession - Mike Nolan & Kripa Kundaliya (very timely!) explore in new research how sustained tech sector layoffs and budget cuts are destabilizing OSS communities that underpin our shared critical digital infrastructure.
Full report: https://infrastructureinsights.fund/projects/infrastructure-in-recession/
Drawing from interviews with maintainers & fundi

4 views {🚨 New report alert II } Infrastructure in Recession - Mike Nolan & Kripa Kundaliya (very timely!) explore in new research how sustained tech sector layoffs and budget cuts are destabilizing OSS communities that underpin our shared critical digital infrastructure. Full report: https://infrastructureinsights.fund/projects/infrastructure-in-recession/ Drawing from interviews with maintainers & fundi

{NEW REPORT alert! } Supported by Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund, Farzaneh Badiei conducted a study on *DNS resolvers* for the past year:
https://infrastructureinsights.fund/projects/understanding-the-shift-away-from-free-and-open-domain-name-servers-resolvers/
💥 Some of the main issues found:
-Lack of access to a distributed, decentralized public DNS resolvers can lead to lack of access t

3 views {NEW REPORT alert! } Supported by Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund, Farzaneh Badiei conducted a study on *DNS resolvers* for the past year: https://infrastructureinsights.fund/projects/understanding-the-shift-away-from-free-and-open-domain-name-servers-resolvers/ 💥 Some of the main issues found: -Lack of access to a distributed, decentralized public DNS resolvers can lead to lack of access t

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Posting cadence

0.18 / week

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Mostly text

Recent: 7 text · 5 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

6.3×

Follows 61 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.

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🔥 Top post Please join us in congratulating John D. Boy (U Leiden) on finalising his important project from cohort 3 “What comes after #FOSS?”: https://infrastructureinsights.fund/projects/what-comes-after-foss/ Quick summary: The report is a corrective rather than a manifesto: retiring th… ★ 14

The empirical heart of the report was a workshop at NIAS/Amsterdam, "Code as Critique" bringing together 3 communities of practice: permacomputing, server collectives, and decentralized networking technologies. Those are sites where techn… ★ 2 *Legitimation crisis* — the implicit liberalism of FOSS, its faith in licenses as regulation and deliberation as decision-making, has repeatedly failed to resolve conflicts around inclusivity, governance, and maintenance. John reads this t… ★ 1 His argument is built as conceptual tripod: *Recursive deskilling* — as Big Tech has come to dominate the tools, stacks, and standards developers rely on (GitHub, NPM, cloud, and now coding agents), control over the labour process has erod… ★ 3 The analysis covers everything from the actual costs of maintaining browser engines (where estimates vary by orders of magnitude) to concrete governance models inspired by successful cooperatives like SWIFT. This work represents exactly th… His report (available via: https://infrastructureinsights.fund/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/diif-wise_website.pdf) examines how the current "search default levy" system concentrates power in the hands of a few monopolies, and proposes a mult…

We´re so happy to have supported @robin work on WISE (Web Infrastructure Search Endowment - https://infrastructureinsights.fund/projects/browser-funding/) - a comprehensive investigation into browser and search engine funding, governance, …

Some D//F announcements from the last few months: Congrats to the team @investinopen on publishing their research findings regarding "Building trust through Values" - the initial research question was: "How applicable and useful are comm… As firms pull back support, many contributors face burnout, reduced volunteerism, and pressure to prioritize “core” technical tasks over essential but non-revenue-generating work like community management. Using Boeing’s 737 Max developme…

{🚨 New report alert II } Infrastructure in Recession - Mike Nolan & Kripa Kundaliya (very timely!) explore in new research how sustained tech sector layoffs and budget cuts are destabilizing OSS communities that underpin our shared critica… ★ 4 - Blocking and filtering at the DNS resolver level is on the rise, leading to many complications and in the end hampering people's access to online services and content. - Trusted third party resolvers are good for the Internet and Intern… ★ 1

{NEW REPORT alert! } Supported by Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund, Farzaneh Badiei conducted a study on *DNS resolvers* for the past year: https://infrastructureinsights.fund/projects/understanding-the-shift-away-from-free-and-open-d… ★ 3

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On Mastodon since

Aug 2023

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🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2023 — 3 years ago.

👁️Averages 4 views per post.

📤Posts about 0.2× per week.

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43/100

Fair Credibility score

73%

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Est. 73% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
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Established account (3+ years old).

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The D//F (Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund) is a multi- funder research initiative sustaining a platform for academics & practitioners to better understand how open digital infrastructure is built & deployed. Open Calls & Commissions. Open digital infrastructures are the code, standards, data and knowledge assets foundational for all applied FOSS (code libraries, protocols...) Funders Circle: Ford Foundation, Sloan Foundation, Omidyar Network, Schmidt Futures.

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