Delete Your Account Now: A Conversation with Jaron Lanier

Re:Delete Your Account Now: A Conversation with Jaron Lanier by decasia on Thursday October 11, 2018 @09:19AM (#18193256)

Federated communities would be neat and basically are how the "real world" already interconnects, socially speaking. I don't think that's exclusive of what I had in mind.

But you have to actually have the communities before you can do the federation (this is also how it works in the offline world — it's not like people design interoperability protocols and THEN found villages).

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Re:Delete Your Account Now: A Conversation with Jaron Lanier by hannasanarion on Thursday October 11, 2018 @09:25AM (#18193307)

So what you're saying is, we should try to convince the existing villages (Facebook, reddit, Twitter) to adopt interoperability protocols?

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Re:Delete Your Account Now: A Conversation with Jaron Lanier by decasia on Thursday October 11, 2018 @09:38AM (#18193394)

Ha no, of course I think that is impossible.

It's more like: we could build nicer, community-funded, sanely run social software, and alongside them we could support XMPP type features for hackers who are able to use them, or to interoperate with other alternative online communities that may be emerging.

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Re:Delete Your Account Now: A Conversation with Jaron Lanier by zaarn on Thursday October 11, 2018 @10:25AM (#18193768)

Nah, I would favor a pitchfork-and-torches approach to Facebook and Twitter, the entire company behind it is so unlikely to change that a radical rebuild is required.

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