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Maybe the U.S. should fund its own social network? In the 1960s it created a government-funded television network to offer alternative programming. But televi
by MilnerRoute 6y ago
Maybe the U.S. should fund its own social network?
In the 1960s it created a government-funded television network to offer alternative programming. But television is an old medium, and less of a source of information today -- partly because it's been supplanted by social media.
- lmg643 6y agoyes...and they could call it LifeLog! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_LifeLog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_LifeLog
- MilnerRoute 6y agoThis has been one of my favorite thought experiments in a while. It seems like there's inevitably going to be a need for some kind of content moderation -- but maybe that could be handled by local librarians, local newspapers. (At least that's a solution that actually scales.)
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- djsumdog 6y agoJoin the Fediverse! Join a Mastodon, Pleroma or MissKey instance, or set on up. Follow some random people and start talking. It's like 90s chat rooms all over again!