The public platform needs to be decentralized. We need a social protocol where the data lives in the protocol and not in some corporate server where it is subject to their whims.
We currently live in a dystopia where your Twitter or Facebook could be banned at their whim leaving you a digital outcast.
What I've always wished existed for social media was something more along the lines of a protocol (like email or rss) than a platform (like Facebook or Twitter).
It seems like as long as a communication form is tied in to one specific provider by design, then there is always going to be unsolvable problems with deplatforming users, content moderation etc.
That's what I'd love to see- decentralization in the sense of anyone can feasibly host a server, rather than the web 3.0 / cryptosphere sense. I genuinely think that would solve most of the issues we see from monopoly platforms.
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Decentralized social networks, that's great! This will ultimately happen anyway, when some open protocols have established amongst the biggest social networks.
It would be awesome to have decentralized social networking - no single point of failure. Same way email is decentralized - you can always run your own email server and enough people do to make it much harder to break or control email compared to, say, Facebook. FB is exactly one company, which make it a too convenient a target for overzealous regulation.
For decentralization to take off, I can absolutely see a company pushing it as a user-first, privacy-forward social media solution. Basically turning your own home computer (or a $100 device you keep plugged in at home), that operates as your server. You set up your profile and use a plugin and add-on store to basically build your own social network. Then share usernames with friends and family. The data stays in your own house and is accessible to those you grant access to.
I'm not familiar with the ins and outs of decentralization yet, but I can totally see this being an angle companies to take. Especially as data privacy becomes even more important to people.
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