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>Government should think about breaking up social media sites or highly regulate them they don't need to do anything that drastic. They literally need to do on
by Barrin92 5y ago
>Government should think about breaking up social media sites or highly regulate them
they don't need to do anything that drastic. They literally need to do one straight forward thing. Force Twitter to open up their API and let people build a bridge to ActivityPub.
Hell Elon could do it if he is serious about decentralization.
- xiphias2 5y agoHe never really said decentralization, I’m not sure where you read it. He wants to identify people like Facebook does it to get rid of bots. At the same time at least he is greatly incentivised to get rid of car emissions, which is good enough reason for me to side with him instead of other people.
- jfkimmes 5y agoThe Digital Markets Act [1] was just passed in the EU. It does exactly that. Enforce interoperability for "gatekeepers". I think Twitter is not quite big enough, yet, though. [1]: https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/priorities-2019-2024/europe-fit-digital-age/digital-markets-act-ensuring-fair-and-open-digital-markets_en#what-are-the-benefits-of-the-digital-markets-act https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/priorities-2019-2024/euro...
- mariusor 5y agoThere are already bridges from twitter to activitypub, however most of the people in the fediverse feel themselves superior to twitter and actively discourage this. If there's a way for twitter to interop with activitypub you will most likely see instances specifically blacklisting it (especially if it becomes a free speech platform). Personally I don't understand why, the negativity and the assholes are already there but maybe in lesser numbers.