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Breaking Tech Open: Why Social Platforms Should Work More Like Email
- rektide 5y agoThe problem with email is that it is not online. It transfers mail to a place, and then it's up to that place to hold it. Email uses the internet, but it does not make content available online. Social won because it brought us online. It made information & connections pervasively available, anywhere, from any device. Folks who came latter could benefit from what already happened. Just building good on-the-wire protocols (like email) is not enough. We need good at-rest protocols, good ways to keep information online. I'd propose that systems like Newsgroups are far closer to what we ought be shooting for: a replicateable, threaded means of communicating.
- dane-pgp 5y ago> What would it look like if social platforms were required to integrate with an interoperable social infrastructure, or even used email itself as this standard? No mention of Mastodon or the Fediverse or ActivityPub or even RSS. Nevertheless, the article does a good of job of introducing people to the problem of platform monopolies and the importance of interoperability.