> 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.
In Albert Hirschman's classic treatise *Exit, Voice, and Loyalty,* stakeholders in an institution who are dissatisfied with its direction have two choices: #voice (arguing for changes) or #exit (going elsewhere). Rozenshtein argues that Fediverse users (especially users of #Mastodon, the most popular part of the Fediverse) have more voice *and* more #FreedomOfExit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit,_Voice,_and_Loyalty
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Twiddler: Configurability for Me, But Not For Thee
https://doctorow.medium.com/twiddler-1b5c9690cce6
#platformEconomics #enshittiffication #critihype #freedomOfExit #Fediverse #Mastodon #Twitter #configurability #monopoly #BigTech
"AND technologists who care, should focus on baking in the 'freedom of exit' into the architecture of the platforms and systems they build and work on …"
And after we fix that problem we can start on certain religions and political parties, where being an apostate is worse than being an unbeliever/infidel!
And policymakers should focus on #FreedomOfExit - the right to leave a sinking platform while remaining connected to the communities that you left behind, enjoying the media and apps you bought, and preserving the data you created:
https://www.eff.org/interoperablefacebook
The Netheads were right: technological self-determination is at odds with the natural imperatives of tech businesses. They make more money when they take away our freedom - our freedom to speak, to leave, to connect.
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In this video, we discuss the forces that keep us using services like Facebook long after we stop enjoying them (hint, it's not because social media is "addictive") and we present a short "design fiction" explaining what it might be like to use social media in the near future, after big companies...
#ContentModeration is fundamentally about making social media work better, but there are two other considerations that determine how social media *fails*: #EndToEnd (#E2E), and #FreedomOfExit. These are much neglected, and that's a pity, because how a system fails is every bit as important as how it works.
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free/ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/19/better-failure/#let-my-tweeters-go
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Cory Doctorow
Richard Rathe
Aaron Huggins