What you are describing, at least in part, is a protocol based social network. Bsky was developed with this in mind, and I've used an alternate web interface and you can run your own media server, but more work is required.
This is late stage capitalism. It was always going to end up this way. The tearing down of institutions that were put in place as a check are almost completely gone. I don’t know how Americans claw back the power from the oligarchs at this point. Half of your country believes they are there for them
It can likely be done. There is now decentralized redundant internet-based file sharing. That'd just need to be hooked up to an app server that is similarly decentralized. The trick might be in the entire domain-name registration process...
Read up on the Robber Barons at the turn of the 20th century. @robertreich1.bsky.social did a great video to remind us that history is repeating itself.
Their voices aren't that loud. Everyone is tired of being restricted and going elsewhere to Trible and BlueSky, to name just a few. We need a statewide platform of conventions so people who are friends on social medica, can meet and form real life friendships.
100% and while I remain on FB as a way to reach my customers & friends and also on X I do not pay for anything there and I block these fools. It's a tricky path to maneuver. And it's a shame that our biz apps are so connected to them! This is what needs to change.
Megalomaniacal billionaires should not be allowed to OWN our social media town squares and algorithmically manipulate online discourse, swaying public interest & opinion to serve their Machiavellian interests. America's oligarchs need to be reined in and taxed into oblivion. We don't need them!
Fuck them, Fat Hitler and the faux US Americans who made him possible. Fuck Merrick Garland too for his inaction, no better than James Comey and his October 2016 surprise.
I will continue to say the same tired lines “basos has enough money to give every single human being on the planet, one million dollars and his great grandchildren will still be rich. #eattherich “
Public platforms already do belong to the people!
You are childishly insinuating that if you privately invent something or privately create something and invest time and money into something, then it ought to belong to the public.
That's communism. Its 100% un-American!
Is that the completely uneducated idea being bandied about?
Because you're absolutely free to create a counter platform or a neutral social platform, just like the creators of all the current platforms decided to do.
They own our food, our water, our air, our banks, our jobs, our media. #Matrix #ITSTIMETOWAKEUP #ITSTIMENOW #SlumberTimeOver #WakeUpNow Take the red pill.
Absolutely!! The same billionaire shitweasels owning social media and ass-kissing trump are the same ones who want to attack the free press (if they don't buy it first and stop it from running editorials and endorsing Democratic candidates).
each of them holds so much property, it rings all kinds of alarm bells... biden successfully sued google for trying to monopolize sources of information... bezos owns the washhington post, lots of publications... musk - wellll, we (mankind) even gave him the sky... zuckerberg rotted social platforms
Likewise in a democracy no large corporation should have any shareholder owning more than let's say ten percent, and for media corporations far less. Democracy means that nobody should have a controlling hand in the political economy other than an elected government for a fixed term.
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LIKE MYSELF, MILLIONS OF US CAN NEVER USE AMAZON, CAN DELETE OUR FACEBOOK ACCTS, AND NEVER BUY A TESLA.
ONLY WAY TO HURT A MILLIONAIRE IS BY MONEY.
I thought monopolies weren't allowed in America.
Elon Marvin Martian shouldn't be allowed to have such control!
Isn't that what suckerburg and Dorsey did in the past?
Stop being a hypocrite fucktard.
Ive been working on a plan for a couple years.. fully decentralized open source suite of socials built on Holochain .. if you code Rust i wanna talk
No gods, No masters
Easiest thing in the world to boycott.
You are childishly insinuating that if you privately invent something or privately create something and invest time and money into something, then it ought to belong to the public.
Is that the completely uneducated idea being bandied about?
Because you're absolutely free to create a counter platform or a neutral social platform, just like the creators of all the current platforms decided to do.
Serious! What the fuck is going on with the educational system in the US, and around the world?