Re:GOP’s Big Tech plan ignores consumers, targets censorship...
by metalliqaz on Thursday July 08, 2021 @05:09PM
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You're talking hosting tech when the value of social networks is 99.9% in the breadth of the userbase.
Re:GOP’s Big Tech plan ignores consumers, targets censorship...
by rektide on Thursday July 08, 2021 @05:18PM
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The Social Web is built around Protocols[1]. Rather than try to compete with big tech by building a bigger monolithic system, either paid for with ads or some other way, the goal is to give folk an expansive suite of capabilities across many sites. Or in the cases of protocols like Web Annotations, anywhere they go.
Re:GOP’s Big Tech plan ignores consumers, targets censorship...
by metalliqaz on Thursday July 08, 2021 @05:52PM
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That would be wonderful, but will Twitter and Instagram participate? I'm doubtful.
There's at least two fronts, having good enough software to be compelling, and having the ops situation be radically easier. Honestly I think Social Web (a general idea not specific tech) is kind of in a doldrums, has some interesting projects, and a lot of enthusiasm, but there's a lack of key innovators. I'd probably get outright spat on by some but I truly think Kubernetes is the first diy-able enough platform to be interesting for ops, and I do think we're not far off from having some fairly good out-of-box autonomic systems, & that would change the game. Alas multi-tenancy is still extremely early days for nearly everyone, & crude, needs a lot of work, but that is kind of optional, but in the end is a key enabler for interesting home computing. Reciprocally Kubernetes really requires multi-cluster capabilities, clusters as cattle, & right now that's a cowpath we need paving.