Crowdsource is significantly different from open source.
Open source is Linux winning because you don't need to pay Microsoft, anyone can fork, Oracle/IBM and Microsoft's enemies putting developers to make it better and so on. Today .NET runs on Linux.
Crowdsource is the usual bs that either through incentives (like crypto) or by heart, people will contribute to free stuff. It doesn't have the openness, liberty or economic incentives open source has.
And Google has lots of crowdsourced data on Maps, I know lots of people who loves to be a guide there.
I'm not an IT Operations guy, but as a dev I always thought it was exciting when the IT guys had in their shoulders the destiny of the firm. I must be exciting.
Most teams that handle incidents have well documented incident plans and playbooks. When something major happens you are mostly executing the plan (which has been designed and tested). There are always gotchas that require additional attention / hands but the general direction is usually clear.
Like other platforms, if you want to be able to socialize on the Fediverse with your friends and family, then they will need to be convinced to join! (I was lucky (strategic) enough to spin up a Mastodon instance and invite my family to join just as Google+ went dark. (Yeah, yeah, we were still using it)).
As far as "real" public content goes, my only real interests there currently are the news feeds for various open source projects/contributors and I can say that there are tons of those on the Fediverse!
And last but not least, sometimes you find random cool stuff to check out like the banjo music from the Capharnaum Counter Magicians Society (https://banjo.town/@magicians)
Crowdsource is significantly different from open source.
Open source is Linux winning because you don't need to pay Microsoft, anyone can fork, Oracle/IBM and Microsoft's enemies putting developers to make it better and so on. Today .NET runs on Linux.
Crowdsource is the usual bs that either through incentives (like crypto) or by heart, people will contribute to free stuff. It doesn't have the openness, liberty or economic incentives open source has.
And Google has lots of crowdsourced data on Maps, I know lots of people who loves to be a guide there.