Cory Doctorow on Nostr: They take the "access" part seriously - making sure the competing priorities of ...
They take the "access" part seriously - making sure the competing priorities of "getting and storing everything" and "letting everyone use everything" don't come down on the side of a musty archive that no one sees - and no one defends when it's on the chopping block.
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