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"Handing control over." Seriously, do you have a realistic alternative? If we are going to have social media, at scale, in a capitalist society, it's hard to se
by thomasjudge 6y ago
"Handing control over." Seriously, do you have a realistic alternative? If we are going to have social media, at scale, in a capitalist society, it's hard to see how there's much of an alternative to for-profit companies. Do you want the government to run Twitter?
- alasdair_ 6y agoIn some ways, yes. For example, Parler could self-host instead of relying on cloud offerings. For something controversial that will likely face legal challenges, this seems like the only reasonable way to do things (see: wikileaks, sci-hub etc.)
- sigstoat 6y ago> For example, Parler could self-host instead of relying on cloud offerings what do you think the difference between AWS' terms of service, and the terms of service of a data center will be? the last data center contract i signed had most of the same stuff, they just had to return my hardware if they were kicking me out.
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoWe could rebuild social media on the same principles as the World Wide Web, where it's not run by any single group at all. (I'd argue that's actually what we had back in the days of the "blogosphere".)
- needz 6y agoWhy not decentralized/federated services run by by various communities all across the world?