@artlung i think a lot of what contemporary platforms do ought to be public goods provided by the state. meetup.com would qualify. the basic criterion is network effects are created by and should be owned by the public. if the value of a thing comes from network effects, it should be public, either like the public internet (decentralized, participatory) or if that’s not practical managed in the public interest by the democratic state (if/when we have one of those).