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It sounded to me like that’s been the intention since it was started. The in person meetings are the point and the whatsapp group exists to facilitate that.
It's responsible for facilitating a ton of fantastic trips amongst myself and friends.
We had extra money. There were some people on the Netherlands with some extra lsd. We swapped using Bitcoin. Value was created.
What when it closed:
Torrents: 2,588,359
Releases: 1,066,026
Artists: 884,432
"Perfect" FLACs: 863,944
Redacted now:
Torrents: 3,225,076
Releases: 1,675,757
Artists: 1,253,924
"Perfect" FLACs: 2,023,560
There are also jobs you wouldn't historically thought of where being human is an innate part of the value proposition but I've seen takes on here from people saying they'll stop watching movies and go to see live plays when movies become purely AI generated.
Doesn't really have anything to do with open source though. Haven't seen anything about matt/wordpress.org/Automattic trying to prevent them from using open source code.
That doesn't mean the market is wrong, it means the market thinks it will continue to be run ineffectively.