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Another example: what if cell phone carriers only let you talk / text with people on the same carrier network? Suddenly everyone would need to buy T-Mobile, or
by SamuelAdams 7y ago
Another example: what if cell phone carriers only let you talk / text with people on the same carrier network? Suddenly everyone would need to buy T-Mobile, or Verizon, or Sprint, just to talk to one another. Or carry 4 different sim cards, similar to having multiple accounts.
Sounds terrible? Good. That's what Facebook is doing now.
- thebigspacefuck 7y agoFacebook lets you share posts from Twitter and Instagram, not sure about what else
- greedo 7y agoUmm, Facebook owns Instagram.
- kerkeslager 7y agoWhen you share a post on Twitter or Instagram, you're creating a Facebook share--this isn't an example of an open protocol in any way.
- joe_the_user 7y agoThe problem is that social networking protocols would inherently be much more complex than phone protocols (but it could be done). Moreover, some body would have to standardize those protocols as well as discovering some way of preventing spam. My hunch that I know get more spam on my phone number than either my email or my Facebook account because phones still have open points of entry.
- theseatoms 7y agoThe open protocol could start small and gradually grow over time, maintaining backwards compatibility. The incentives aren't there, of course.
- int_19h 7y agoFor starters, let's just have them open, and let the market figure out how to bridge them. With lessons learned from that, maybe we can come up with something working. But even if not, it would already be a drastic improvement on what we have.
- kerkeslager 7y agoI suspect there are two reasons we get more spam phone calls: 1. There's no effective signing on phone calls, so spoofing a phone number is easy. This makes it impossible to prosecute spammers. 2. There's no way to filter a phone call based on the content of the phone call before it arrives. It's possible to spoof senders on email and text messages as well, but it's also possible to filter these based on content before they reach your inbox. This isn't perfect, but it greatly reduces spam in text-based mediums.
- Spooky23 7y agoThe main reason is the telcos choose not to, because they make money on them. You can eliminate ~95%+ of junk calls from the telco side.
- kerkeslager 7y agoHow?
- yoz-y 7y agoBack in the day when I had my first cell phone things were not that far from this. Except that usually it was free/cheap to call people that were on the same carrier and price to call other carriers was ludicrous.
- someluccc 7y agoExcept it takes 30 seconds and it’s free to open a facebook account. You can even use messenger without having a facebook profile.