[liberationtech] Wealthy entrepreneurs ask whether you would use a Liberationtech-friendly Twitter clone?

[Richard Brooks]

I kind of like the "positive freedom of speech"
ideas expressed here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/26/opinion/elon-musk-twitter.html

An algorithm that would privilege messages of that type
instead of the facebook "maximize rage" objective function
would be good.

There are suggestions for a distributed protocol (a la
matrix) with multiple clients and the ability to tune your
own filters. That could be appealing.

My concern about the tunable filters is the emergence of
stronger filter bubbles.

I am having trouble differentiating Musk's "freedom of
speech" from GETTR/PARLER. I suspect the twitter cesspool
will devolve into a Truth Social clone over time.

They could also look at the discussion system that
Taiwan put in place for civil debates. They seem to
have a number of interesting features.

On 4/28/22 05:38, Petter Ericson wrote:
> On 28 april, 2022 - Bill Woodcock wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>>> On Apr 28, 2022, at 10:18 AM, Julian Oliver <julian at julianoliver.com> wrote:
>>> Perhaps worth putting to the 'wealthy entrepreneurs' that they may consider
>>> donating instead to Mastodon's development/bug-bounties, an existing migration
>>> target that is free, open source, and already supporting very large populations
>>> across its many instances. If they would chose otherwise, I would question their
>>> motives from the outset.
>>
>> In principle, I agree with that last.
>>
>> However, Mastodon is not the be-all-and-end-all of social media.  There’s plenty of room for competition and improvement and new ideas.
> 
> Looking into all the various programs that federate over ActivityPub there is,
> in fact, quite a lot of competition and improvement and new ideas already.
> 
> Everything from blogging (WriteFreely) to video hosting and distribution
> (PeerTube) to picture sharing (Pixiv) to book reviews (BookWyrm) to just loads
> of different flavours of microblogging (e.g. Pleroma and various forks of
> Mastodon).
> 
> I personally might have preferred the ecosystem stayed with OStatus, but
> there's no arguing that the ActivityPub protocol hasn't had a lot more success.
> 
> /P
> 


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