Please stop directing people to the #Proprietary #WalledGarden #SurveillancePlatform that is Discord.

Especially for your #FreeSoftware project, it sends exactly the wrong message.

If you promote #SoftwareFreedom, if you want an equivalent that you can #SelfHost and all the other #DataFreedom of properly open systems, help build it!

#Revolt https://revolt.chat/ is being built by the @revoltchat community, come make it better and help promote #ProtocolsNotPlatforms.

(hat tip @mattcen)

Please stop directing people to the #Proprietary #WalledGarden #SurveillancePlatform that is Discord.

Especially for your #FreeSoftware project, it sends exactly the wrong message.

If you promote #SoftwareFreedom, if you want an equivalent that you can #SelfHost and all the other #DataFreedom of properly open systems, help build it!

#Revolt https://revolt.chat/ is being built by the #FreeSoftware community, come make it better and help promote #ProtocolsNotPlatforms.

(hat tip @mattcen)

@HeathAllyn @eniko Yeah I think the idea was it would be even better than fediverse/mastodon in this respect – you pick your own algorithm or whatever; a la #ProtocolsNotPlatforms

@sotneStatue

> When on earth would that be a thing on centralized web

Only when we force them to do it. #ProtocolsNotPlatforms #FreedomOfExit

And we can. It's already begun. From @pluralistic:

> governments are handing down new interoperability mandates: the EU's Digital Markets Act forces the largest companies to offer APIs so that smaller rivals can plug into them and let users walkaway from Big Tech into new kinds of platforms that treat them better.

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/19/better-failure/

Truly, there is a real problem with malicious web traffic, just as there is a problem with malicious email traffic. Website operators are looking for solutions.

Just like with email, though, the solution is not to hand more and more control to giant centralised unaccountable corporations to squat on increasing portions of what was formerly the #DecentralisedWeb of #OpenStandards.

#ProtocolsNotPlatforms #CorporateSurveillance #ReFederateTheWeb

@jaredwhite @jamescridland Stuff like this is why so many of us so adamantly and incessantly bleat #ProtocolsNotPlatforms but it all seems in vain. Certainly #media are a source of headwinds for this informational campaign. Obviously this is because media are, by their very nature, monetized. I don't think monetized activity is possible on a (open) protocol, and it seems non-monetized activity is nearly impossible on a #platform (or even a platform-dominated #web).

@IronCurtain @jschauma @pluralistic @mmasnick

Both… #ProtocolsNotApps and #ProtocolsNotPlatforms -- although realistically a platform is an externally-hosted application though. Just one you're not allowed to host yourself. So the latter is redundant. ;-)

@stuartl @jschauma @pluralistic

I think @mmasnick would prefer it if we called it #protocolsNotPlatforms.

@tchambers #ProtocolsNotPlatforms

Notes about how I'm using the fediverse (so far)

I like @mmasnick #ProtocolsNotPlatforms, to which people then can bolt on opt-in algorithms or other tools. These can be to help populate/trim/thin your feed, to help find interesting people or topics, or change how your client presents data. (And some of these tools exist, I've not found them.

With respect to @GossiTheDog point about empty feeds, clients or instances could give "starter-packs" - including lists or pointers to tools.

1/3

Summaries and links to the threads of the #TwitterFiles
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/capsule-summaries-of-all-twitter

Even though the journalists could only access what was written down, they found plenty to show how platforms are controlled by the national intelligence apparatus. I assume this is happening on every major platform. This is why I support #ProtocolsNotPlatforms .

@mor10 @chriscoyier

If you control the platform on which the app runs, you control the app.

As much as either of them would like to, and as much as both have tried (and failed), neither have been able to control the web.

This is the essential lesson of the #fediverse and by extension, #mastodon, build apps for #protocols, not platforms.

#protocolsNotPlatforms

Large language models are clearly an existential threat to search engines in the way mid-90s internet adoption was to Bill Gates' vision for Microsoft. Not to be conspiratorial about it, but I wonder if this may explain some of the #FUD surrounding AI. Like HTTP and later the #fediverse, AI is a democratizing tool, and I believe that 2023 will be the year that protocols over platforms became a mainstream idea. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/21/technology/ai-chatgpt-google-search.html

#ProtocolsNotPlatforms
#ProtocolsOverPlatforms

@maxleibman @aral I think this is less a sentiment than it is a rejoinder. There's certainly nothing cynical about it. In fact changing the way we think about large commercial platforms is probably a good idea in 2023. #ProtocolsNotPlatforms

Anger generates clicks, clicks generate profit. What's happening on social media is the equivalent of using the same pipes for your drinking water and the sewer system. - Chuck Todd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7BYEOxRm3Y

#ProtocolsNotPlatforms

@donieosullivan Donie, I think you and CNN have a responsibility to leave Twitter. It is imperative that you do not delete that tweet under any circumstance, at the minimum. The cynicism of this moment is breathtaking. And the solution is just as obvious. People who truly influence society, journalists, scientists and writers must leave Twitter for the sake of humanity. #ProtocolsNotPlatforms

As new federated systems go mainstream, we need to ensure we're supporting the humans and organizations behind them. I'm not just talking about Mastodon, Pixelfed, Peertube, and BookWyrm :blobcatoutage:

This update from The #Matrix Foundation is concerning:
https://matrix.org/blog/2022/12/25/the-matrix-holiday-update-2022

We are on notice. The success of the tech we rely on isn't guaranteed just by merit of our use. We need to invest in these projects and communities.

#ProtocolsNotPlatforms #OpenSource #FLOSS #Foundations #IndieWeb

Vielleicht ist der Zug schon lange abgefahren, aber gerade jetzt könnte es DAS Zeitfenster geben, zentralisierte Online Services hinter uns zu lassen. #OpenWeb #ProtocolsNotPlatforms

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/21/why-would-anyone-use-another-centralized-social-media-service-after-this/

@austinkocher @aral

A relevant wider point, eloquently expressed by @mmasnick:

“[T]here’s a lot of fun and interesting development going on none of which relies on a big centralized, VC backed social media company. While those are rushing in to try to fill the void… I’m kinda wondering why would anyone invest in building up a social graph and content on one of those?”

#ProtocolsNotPlatforms #DataSovereignty

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/21/why-would-anyone-use-another-centralized-social-media-service-after-this/

#decentralized #protocolsnotplatforms #fediverse #startrek #tng #wintersolstice