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Re:We Can’t Trust Facebook to Regulate Itself by dwaltrip on Sunday November 19, 2017 @10:52PM (#15737646)
I think this is definitely a very interesting line of discussion for this problem.

I really like the idea of essentially forcing federation protocols to be developed. E-mail was an overwhelming success -- we should look for ways to repeat that success with other aspects.

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Re:We Can’t Trust Facebook to Regulate Itself by em3rgent0rdr on Sunday November 19, 2017 @11:01PM (#15737681)
What about developing federated protocols by 'just doing it'.
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Re:We Can’t Trust Facebook to Regulate Itself by s286912 on Monday November 20, 2017 @12:07AM (#15737937)
How about creating a open standard for social media,i.e, open API so that no matter what platform you use, you can connect to ppl on other platforms. This should introduce more competition in the market without creating a loophole to regulate internet.

so ppl would be able to choose platform based on variety of variables like advertisements, data collection, looks, usability.... just an idea

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Re:We Can’t Trust Facebook to Regulate Itself by uoaei on Monday November 20, 2017 @01:34AM (#15738223)
Creating standards is the easy part, uptake is a whole other beast.
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Re:We Can’t Trust Facebook to Regulate Itself by daveid on Monday November 20, 2017 @09:18AM (#15739984)
Mastodon uses ActivityPub and has over a million users
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Re:We Can’t Trust Facebook to Regulate Itself by fabianhjr on Monday November 20, 2017 @01:02AM (#15738108)
OStatus[1] and ActivityPub[2][3] already exist.

[1]: https://www.w3.org/community/ostatus/wiki/images/9/93/OStatu...

[2]: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/

[3]: http://activitypub.rocks/

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Re:We Can’t Trust Facebook to Regulate Itself by em3rgent0rdr on Monday November 20, 2017 @07:40AM (#15739479)
cool...last I heard about MediaGoblin (a self-hosted YouTube/flicker media-sharing clone), they were trying to implement ActivityPub so that MediaGoblin instances could be federated. However, I haven't seen any updated news from them in over a year.

https://mediagoblin.org/news/tpac-2016-and-review-activitypu...

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