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I disagree. Government run social media has no reason to promote engaging(antagonizing) content towards you. You log in, see a post or two from your local, stat

I disagree. Government run social media has no reason to promote engaging(antagonizing) content towards you. You log in, see a post or two from your local, state, and Federal representatives and departments that no longer have to post on a dozen different private social media to disseminate public info and some post from people you have specifically chosen to follow. A chronological feed too, the site doesn't need to keep you scrolling and engaged to view ads. Open up the API and let people layer their own engagements on top of it.

batch12 3y ago
I dont agree, but thats okay. You and I don't have the same level of trust that future government employees and leadership will be objective and reasonable with their interpretation of what we post to our friends and family, I guess. I hope you're the right one here, but I cant make myself believe it.
- undersuit 3y ago
  I trust them just as much as I trust private interests.
  - batch12 3y ago
    The balance of power between the two is far from equal though. One can take your freedom, money, and life. The other can deplatform you.
    - undersuit 3y ago
      Don't slippery slope me on what can happen in social media when both public and private interests do what you are worried about right now!
thebigkick 3y ago
Why can't this just be on their website? Not everything needs engagement from the masses. Also building online communities is incredibly difficult and resource heavy, seeing that we can barely get enough funding for teachers to run their classrooms appropriately would this be the best use of taxpayers money?
- sparrish 3y ago
  Exactly. Don't waste my taxes on a social media site.
- undersuit 3y ago
  Great idea I think we can fund teachers and provide a simple social media site for all. Think about why this would be incredibly difficult and resource heavy? The US social media site doesn't have to try and serve video reliably while threading in ads to make a profit. Sure people can try to upload video in plain text and create their own clients to ingest it, like I said "Open up the API and let people layer their own engagements on top of it." It's an infrastructure project, like national highway or the internet.
lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y ago
I'd love to see it (in a hypothetical sense slightly more than the real sense) just to see the "tyrannical moderation" case law that comes of it. If they wanted to add a bunch of "analytics" suddenly there's real government contention around online privacy. In the long term, it seems like it has a lot of potential to be a Good Thing but it depends a lot on how it actually plays out.

batch12 3y ago

I dont agree, but thats okay. You and I don't have the same level of trust that future government employees and leadership will be objective and reasonable with their interpretation of what we post to our friends and family, I guess. I hope you're the right one here, but I cant make myself believe it.

undersuit 3y ago
I trust them just as much as I trust private interests.
- batch12 3y ago
  The balance of power between the two is far from equal though. One can take your freedom, money, and life. The other can deplatform you.
  - undersuit 3y ago
    Don't slippery slope me on what can happen in social media when both public and private interests do what you are worried about right now!

thebigkick 3y ago

Why can't this just be on their website? Not everything needs engagement from the masses. Also building online communities is incredibly difficult and resource heavy, seeing that we can barely get enough funding for teachers to run their classrooms appropriately would this be the best use of taxpayers money?

sparrish 3y ago
Exactly. Don't waste my taxes on a social media site.
undersuit 3y ago
Great idea I think we can fund teachers and provide a simple social media site for all. Think about why this would be incredibly difficult and resource heavy? The US social media site doesn't have to try and serve video reliably while threading in ads to make a profit. Sure people can try to upload video in plain text and create their own clients to ingest it, like I said "Open up the API and let people layer their own engagements on top of it." It's an infrastructure project, like national highway or the internet.

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y ago

I'd love to see it (in a hypothetical sense slightly more than the real sense) just to see the "tyrannical moderation" case law that comes of it. If they wanted to add a bunch of "analytics" suddenly there's real government contention around online privacy. In the long term, it seems like it has a lot of potential to be a Good Thing but it depends a lot on how it actually plays out.