Open social media provides the opportunity to realize the internet’s original promise: user agency, not billionaire control. It is also a key component of national security. Many countries are now grappling with the reality that their critical digital infrastructure – social, search, commerce, advertising, browsers, operating systems, and more – is subordinated to foreign, increasingly hostile, companies. That is why I'm working with a group of technology and governance experts to establish open, democratically-governed social media infrastructure. Read my op-ed in Project Syndicate: https://lnkd.in/eVfaV3Xq
Dan Brickley
1 个月
When you say “foreign”, do you mean countries like France or China or India or Belgium? Surely UK isn’t foreign. Obviously the USA is! Do “foreign” users get one participant one vote privileges or will the infrastructure be nationally sharded?
Alex Mi?owski
1 个月
As an alternative to the “fediverse” which already has open specs and protocols?
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1 个月Berjon states "Social media is media." Correct and the problems with (analog) media have been amplified by digital ecosystems that were meant to be "open", "permissionless" and "settlement-free". Except they didn't turn out that way. So rather than perpetuate failed models and build on unstable foundations, let's build new foundations and focus on the true power of digital; namely 2-way engagement. Blueprints for building these new foundations and models can be drawn from early efforts at fostering universal service during the revolution of 2-way communications in the early 1900s and capturing everything we've learned about the internet's and social media's failures over the past 40 years. Unfortunately, the principles underlying FreeOurFeeds does not recognize all of this leading to the inevitable failure to achieve its stated goals. https://infostack.substack.com/p/burn-it-all-down