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Oh boy. We need an open protocol for social media already. It’s obvious the current platforms are too subjective and these idiots have become like mainstream ne

Oh boy. We need an open protocol for social media already. It’s obvious the current platforms are too subjective and these idiots have become like mainstream news networks where they remove content based on how advertisers feel about their ads being displayed on those programs. That’s not what the internet is supposed to be. Need to end this soon honestly because Patreon ain’t my mother or Putin.

gumby 5y ago
> We need an open protocol for social media already. We have one and you are using it already: http. Just make your own blog. Add comments if you want. You can say or host whatever you want. > It’s obvious the current platforms are too subjective People chose platforms (HN, FB; Google, DDG; etc etc) because they make choices for the user. I can’t read every post my friends make on FB so I rely on FB to surface some that I will find interesting and provide as few uninteresting ones as possible. I use a search engine and ask it to choose for me which pages are likely the best to answer my question. The whole point of such tools is to be subjective. None have a monopoly so you are free to choose the one that makes the decisions that are as close to your desires as possible.
- HKH2 5y ago
  > You can say or host whatever you want. I doubt it. Even if you self-host, you can't guarantee you won't be DDOSed.
- crate_barre 5y ago
  The protocol is not handling push and users/following.
  - gumby 5y ago
    Sure it does, just use RSS. That’s how I read the web.
- spacemanmatt 5y ago
  >> We need an open protocol for social media already. >We have one and you are using it already: http. Just make your own blog. Add comments if you want. You can say or host whatever you want. We need an open social directory. I continue to favor appropriating facebook's directory as a critical national infrastructure.

gumby 5y ago

> We need an open protocol for social media already. We have one and you are using it already: http. Just make your own blog. Add comments if you want. You can say or host whatever you want. > It’s obvious the current platforms are too subjective People chose platforms (HN, FB; Google, DDG; etc etc) because they make choices for the user. I can’t read every post my friends make on FB so I rely on FB to surface some that I will find interesting and provide as few uninteresting ones as possible. I use a search engine and ask it to choose for me which pages are likely the best to answer my question. The whole point of such tools is to be subjective. None have a monopoly so you are free to choose the one that makes the decisions that are as close to your desires as possible.

HKH2 5y ago
> You can say or host whatever you want. I doubt it. Even if you self-host, you can't guarantee you won't be DDOSed.
crate_barre 5y ago
The protocol is not handling push and users/following.
- gumby 5y ago
  Sure it does, just use RSS. That’s how I read the web.
spacemanmatt 5y ago
>> We need an open protocol for social media already. >We have one and you are using it already: http. Just make your own blog. Add comments if you want. You can say or host whatever you want. We need an open social directory. I continue to favor appropriating facebook's directory as a critical national infrastructure.