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TL;DR Mandate interoperability with federated networks. I'm skeptical about the feasibility of the idea, mostly due to the fact that it will be impossible to g

by yosito 4y ago

TL;DR Mandate interoperability with federated networks. I'm skeptical about the feasibility of the idea, mostly due to the fact that it will be impossible to get tech giants to agree to stick to a standardized content format, especially when they have conflict interests. But I would definitely like an app where I could follow all of my friends on whatever networks they choose, and see an ad-free list of their posts so I could choose which ones to view on the respective networks, and make sure that I don't miss important posts.

akira2501 4y ago
It's not feasible because there's no fee model for the users. It's a free service. With traditional "federated" networks, like telephones, the customers pay for the service and you can mandate interoperability that includes allowed peerage fees to incentivize quality and compatibility of these connections. The proposed act requires one social network to carry messages for another with zero incentives between them. Even if you do get it implemented, I suspect it will never work with any reliability or will have so many limitations applied as to be essentially useless for the stated purpose.
dmix 4y ago
Plus by the time it gets through congress and into written law the big tech lawyers will have riddled it with ways to suppress their competition and have it so complex/involved that only a large company could follow it (see: the bills following 'too-big-too fail' that merely reduced the number of big banks to 5 and hundreds of midsized ones could no longer deal with the new capital requirements). I'm just trying to imagine how awful the standard will be, or how selective the enforcement will be, how some new technological development happens but adoption gets crippled by a policy written for the Facebook era, etc, etc. There's always tons of downsides that outweigh these heavy handed interventions.

by yosito 4y ago

akira2501 4y ago

It's not feasible because there's no fee model for the users. It's a free service. With traditional "federated" networks, like telephones, the customers pay for the service and you can mandate interoperability that includes allowed peerage fees to incentivize quality and compatibility of these connections. The proposed act requires one social network to carry messages for another with zero incentives between them. Even if you do get it implemented, I suspect it will never work with any reliability or will have so many limitations applied as to be essentially useless for the stated purpose.

dmix 4y ago

Plus by the time it gets through congress and into written law the big tech lawyers will have riddled it with ways to suppress their competition and have it so complex/involved that only a large company could follow it (see: the bills following 'too-big-too fail' that merely reduced the number of big banks to 5 and hundreds of midsized ones could no longer deal with the new capital requirements). I'm just trying to imagine how awful the standard will be, or how selective the enforcement will be, how some new technological development happens but adoption gets crippled by a policy written for the Facebook era, etc, etc. There's always tons of downsides that outweigh these heavy handed interventions.