Social media is broken – a new report offers ways to fix it

Re:Social media is broken – a new report offers ways to fix it by olah_1 on Sunday July 04, 2021 @01:33PM (#27731256)

> ultimately they've failed bc a "fixed social media model" almost seems antithetical to "a good business."

Local governments like cities / towns should provide federated apps like Matrix / Activity Pub as a service.

Your tax money should pay for the maintenance of the servers.

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Re:Social media is broken – a new report offers ways to fix it by MilnerRoute on Sunday July 04, 2021 @01:51PM (#27731387)

I've always wanted to see that happen. When television came along, governments funded public broadcasting channels. Now that social media has come along...why couldn't there also be a publicly-funded social media service?

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Re:Social media is broken – a new report offers ways to fix it by cvwright on Sunday July 04, 2021 @09:24PM (#27733945)

You want to put the next Trump in charge of your social network???

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Re:Social media is broken – a new report offers ways to fix it by olah_1 on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @01:25PM (#27763589)

No. It would be my city's technology officer, basically. Subsidiarity.

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