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While Tumblr have every right to have whatever terms of service they like, this feels like a bait-and-switch to me. People and communities have become accustome
by cabalamat 8y ago
While Tumblr have every right to have whatever terms of service they like, this feels like a bait-and-switch to me. People and communities have become accustomed to allowing NSFW stuff on Tumblr, and if Tumblr had forbidden this from the get go these people who have set up somewhere else and not on Tumblr.
What we need[1] is for social networks to be interoperable, with open data and protocols, so that a user can up sticks, move to a different site, and take their existing data (posts, images etc) with them and keep their followers.
1. As I have argued before, see https://cabalamat.wordpress.com/2018/08/30/dont-nationalise-facebook-mandate-open-data-and-protocols/ https://cabalamat.wordpress.com/2018/08/30/dont-nationalise-...
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- Waterluvian 8y agoI think you're pretty much describing Solid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_(web_decentralization_project) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_(web_decentralization_pr... Though I could be wrong. I never fully grokked Solid last time I read about it.
- cabalamat 8y agoThat and Mastodon, ActivityPub and IPFS are examples of the sort of thing I have in mind. Also the decentralised flood-fill model of Usenet.
- jazzyjackson 8y agoCan you tell me what you mean by flood-fill ? I'm looking at different strategies for sync'ing activity between domains, and ActivityPub / IPFS seem like a lot of conceptual overhead. I'd rather just rsync directories on my friends' servers.
- cabalamat 8y ago> Can you tell me what you mean by flood-fill? OK, imagine a load of servers. Each is connected to some (not all) of the others, and they all peer messages to each other. A -- B -- C -- D | | E -- F -- H | G -- I A message M is sent to one (say A). B asks A "have you got any new messages?" (or it might be A pushes them onto B) and A replies with M. From B, M is sent to C and E. From E it is sent to F and G. Eventually it gets to all the servers on the network. I envisage that each message would have a unique ID consisting of a cryptographic hash of its contents and timestamp.
- rspeer 8y agoYou can't move between Mastodon instances and keep your followers.