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“Publicly funded” Twitter? No thanks. I don’t want my tax money going to a Skinner box.

• riffic 5y ago
  fine, enjoy your Twitter login-walls just to view wildfire notifications (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28281472 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28281472, https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=twitter%20login%20wall&sort=byDate&type=all https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...). As a content consumer I don't want a login to a state-funded system, but I want state-funded content to be pushed into a standard/interoperable ecosystem. This ecosystem exists today btw. We don't need to wait for some bs ponzi web3 crypto savior to develop their form of nonsense. We already have everything in place today except for political will.
  • aaomidi 5y ago
    Alternatively, a decentralized and anarchist based social media without the states tendrils :) You know, like mastodon. Or literally anything else that develops. The State should just interface with anything and everything it can out there, rather than dictate a standard.
    • riffic 5y ago
      I'm implicitly referring to Mastodon. However, It does not need to be Mastodon per se. You could just shoehorn whatever open protocol that exists into your content management system and then push those updates out to the broader network. This is an existing system.
  • pc86 5y ago
    State-funded content won't be pushed into a standard or interoperable ecosystem, it will either be published as it is today (into freely available private platforms with huge public usage) or into proprietary state systems built by the lowest bidder. Regardless of your feelings on "the interoperable open web," one of the above two options is objectively better than the other.