[HN Gopher] Federation is the future of social media, says Blues...
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       Federation is the future of social media, says Bluesky CEO Jay
       Graber
        
       Author : rntn
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2024-03-25 18:07 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | halfmatthalfcat wrote:
       | I still think we haven't seen the "what's next" in social. I
       | think all these completing protocols are barking up the right
       | tree but they seem to be a bridge to the next thing, not the next
       | thing in and of itself.
        
       | thisislife2 wrote:
       | Federation is the future because politics demands it. As more and
       | more social media platform turn into an intelligence gathering
       | and an information warfare tool, countries around the world will
       | make stricter laws to restrict the current American and Chinese
       | owned BigTech moats of social media platform. We are already
       | seeing this with new data privacy laws or stringent restriction
       | or even outright banning of the platform (as China has done).
       | This is a huge headache for American and Chinese government
       | because such restrictions impairs their current online
       | intelligence programs. The obvious solution is to partly
       | sacrifice the profits of the BigTech to keep the data flowing.
       | We'll soon find inter-operability being _forced_ on platforms
       | (like iMessage or WhatsApp). More  "open" protocols will be
       | pushed and standardised slowly to make it difficult to impose
       | political restrictions and weaken privacy laws (because the
       | message will be that BigTech are no longer in control, but "the
       | people" and _every_ government wants to spy on its citizens).
       | Just look at email to realise how these things eventually end up
       | - how many of you run your own email servers, and successfully
       | ensure that your mails aren 't bocked by "spam" services?
       | Federation is good and necessary. But we are now decades past
       | from the idea of "controlling our data".
        
       | mrweiner wrote:
       | $technology is the future of $industry, says CEO implementing
       | $technology in $industry.
        
       | r14c wrote:
       | I honestly hope so. Having organizations like Meta or Twitter et
       | al control massive sections of the social media landscape is not
       | healthy. Any organization, group, or individual that wants to
       | have an online presence should be able to spin up their own
       | service and publish to any constellation of servers that want to
       | hear what they have to say. I hope the EU efforts to push common
       | standards are also applied to US companies in US markets to make
       | all of the coms services federate like we were promised over a
       | decade ago.
        
       | stalfosknight wrote:
       | I'd like to see them actually make it so the common person can
       | understand federation and see it as a plus rather than a
       | confusing onboarding roadblock.
        
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