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The crux is disallowing or otherwise destroying the profit motive for platform creation, as much as or more than creating a functional alternative.
by throwawaygh 5y ago
The crux is disallowing or otherwise destroying the profit motive for platform creation, as much as or more than creating a functional alternative.
- wizzwizz4 5y agoPretty much none of the Fediverse is for-profit. People have tried, before. Nobody uses the for-profit Fedi services, because they're just bad. (There are for-profit hosting providers like Masto.host, but I don't think they count.)
- throwawaygh 5y agoRight but how do you mandate the use of Fediverse (as opposed to tiktok/fb/insta/twitter/substack/etc.)?
- wizzwizz4 5y agoWhy would you want to mandate it? That would kill Fedi faster than anything. Make it an available option that stands the test of time, while other things come and go, and people will use it eventually. (The Fediverse is already over a decade and a half old; almost as old as Facebook.) Although, there are some proposals in the EU to make it mandatory for social media companies to use open communication protocols like ActivityPub (an exaggeration of their existing obligations under GDPR, which most of them are ignoring already)...
- throwawaygh 5y agoIt's less about mandating a specific platform or network and more about reducing the ability to profiteer off of political speech.