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> What could that wouldn't with a private platform? Well, with a private company you don't have the one who makes and enforces the rules also running your soci

• riffic 8y ago
  With the ActivityPub "Fediverse" each publisher only controls the instance they publish to, not the entire network at large. Anyone can run an instance of a server implementing the protocol and anyone can subscribe to messages published by a microblogger. What experience do you have here, and have you read the protocols yet? Here's a reference implementation: https://github.com/dariusk/express-activitypub https://github.com/dariusk/express-activitypub My larger statement here is that organizations that the public give tax dollars into should be running open infrastructure that they self-manage and would then provision accounts for their users (users in this case being the agencies that utilize and publish to social media feeds and the offices of elected officials that do the same), and not be subscribers to centralized social media services (that is, twitter, facebook, instagram, et cetera et cetera. If you haven't been living under a rock you know these services have issues and are being gamed.)