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G Suite, or what was originally "Google Apps for Your Domain" is a white-labeled Gmail. Commercial social media companies can theoretically make some serious m
by riffic 7y ago
G Suite, or what was originally "Google Apps for Your Domain" is a white-labeled Gmail.
Commercial social media companies can theoretically make some serious money by whitelabeling their services and selling those to whoever has an audience. Stop thinking about things in terms of followers - it's the publishers that need to be captured for revenue.
What I'd really like to see from U.S. Senators is legislation to require all *.GOV agencies spin up their own ActivityPub-compliant implementations and publish through that means, rather than via accounts on commercial social media services.
Eventually, media and other institutions will follow.
if anyone is interested in learning more, just look up Mastodon Project, the Fediverse, and ActivityPub in Wikipedia.
edit: By "whitelabeling" I mean "Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/Youtube for Your Domain", federated and ActivityPub-compliant. Enterprises will eat this shit up.
- mxuribe 7y agoI've thought of this very same thought myself ever since I've had a presence on the fediverse (waaaaay back in the gnu social, statusnet, etc. days). Even if brands only gain the benefit of better control of their brand presence (on platforms that they control) instead of being beholden to the likes of Facebook, etc....I do agree that there's a business to be had for offering commercial social media hosting.
- bryan_w 7y agoYou should check out workplace (by facebook).