Yes, protocols, not platforms -- but BigTech cannot be involved beyond funding. We've already been down their road.
Twitter funding a team to develop an open standard for social media
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#13How is decentralized twitter supposed to solve misinformation?
It mostly makes moderation (or censorship) impossible.
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#14Ha, I knew it wouldn't take long for web 2 to get in on the web 3 act.
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#15Twitter has repeatedly demonstrated that they are not a developer friendly company and that you should never build anything on their APIs. Since day one, they've done nothing but crack down on 3rd party development and peel away access. They are the last company that should be trusted to develop an open standard.
Well, maybe second-to-last.
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#16I don't understand how this solves anything. What can stop shitty people from joining and posting content to any of this?
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#17The Mastodon project Twitter helpfully provided a list of existing projects that are robust and already fairly popular.
https://twitter.com/MastodonProject/status/12047748080153272...
Mastodon has a number of instance and user-level boundary controls, like image muting for porn and sex work instances, that let people still federate with instances that could be trouble without that boundary. It would keep a hypothetical Twitter.com instance from causing what happened when AOL brought millions of people online.
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#18They should use RSS; Youtube, Medium and most blogs already generate RSS feeds for their content.
Am I mixed up, or did Twitter at one point have RSS feeds? I also distinctly recall XMPP support circa 2008.
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#19How is decentralized twitter supposed to solve misinformation? It mostly makes moderation (or censorship) impossible.
Works out quite well if you want to get out of the business of moderating.
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#20There are multiple ways they could decentralise, Mastodon-like or not. I bet the prime requirement is securing a business model for Twitter.