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How about creating a open standard for social media,i.e, open API so that no matter what platform you use, you can connect to ppl on other platforms. This shou
by s286912 9y ago
How about creating a open standard for social media,i.e, open API so that no matter what platform you use, you can connect to ppl on other platforms. This should introduce more competition in the market without creating a loophole to regulate internet.
so ppl would be able to choose platform based on variety of variables like advertisements, data collection, looks, usability.... just an idea
- fabianhjr 9y agoOStatus[1] and ActivityPub[2][3] already exist. [1]: https://www.w3.org/community/ostatus/wiki/images/9/93/OStatus_1.0_Draft_2.pdf https://www.w3.org/community/ostatus/wiki/images/9/93/OStatu... [2]: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/ https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/ [3]: http://activitypub.rocks/ http://activitypub.rocks/
- em3rgent0rdr 9y agocool...last I heard about MediaGoblin (a self-hosted YouTube/flicker media-sharing clone), they were trying to implement ActivityPub so that MediaGoblin instances could be federated. However, I haven't seen any updated news from them in over a year. https://mediagoblin.org/news/tpac-2016-and-review-activitypub.html https://mediagoblin.org/news/tpac-2016-and-review-activitypu...
- uoaei 9y agoCreating standards is the easy part, uptake is a whole other beast.
- daveid 9y agoMastodon uses ActivityPub and has over a million users