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Do you think the solution is to move to another service who may or may not abuse by his position in the future?
by tzfld 8y ago
Do you think the solution is to move to another service who may or may not abuse by his position in the future?
- arethuza 8y agoThe only solution is probably a move to open standard for social networking with multiple implementations and multiple instances of each implementation.
- m-i-l 8y agoDon't want to sound defeatist because I do think it is a good idea, but: The great thing about distributed social networking standards is that there are so many different ones to choose from[0]. We need to develop one universal standard that covers everyone's use case[1]. Even then there would be a risk that one dominant player would emerge and embrace, extend and extinguish the open standards[2]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_software_and_protocols_for_distributed_social_networking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_software_and_pro... [1] https://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
- arethuza 8y agoI'm old enough to remember pre-Web hypertext systems and pre-SMTP email systems - so I live in hope....