Sebastian HagensNov 3, 2022

#leestip 'How to Leave Dying Social Media Platforms - without ditching your friends' van @pluralistic

https://doctorow.medium.com/how-to-leave-dying-social-media-platforms-9fc550fe5abf

"But there’s one problem that stands in the way of this mass exodus — one critical collective action problem the Fediverse can’t solve.
Anyone in the Fediverse can easily talk to other people in the Fediverse — but they can’t talk to the people they leave behind on the big platforms like Facebook and Twitter."

How to Leave Dying Social Media Platforms - Cory Doctorow - Medium

In the opening scenes of the 1971 film adaptation of Fiddler on the Roof, the narrator, Tevye, introduces us to his village of Anatevka, which is a pretty fraught place where people are unhappy and…

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@sebastian @pluralistic
Thanks very interesting reading. I also agree on the following :
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There’s no technical reason that Big Tech can’t directly connect to the Fediverse. The ACCESS Act, a proposed US law, would do just that. The EU has passed the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which promises to impose interoperability on giant social media platforms…eventually.
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Interoperability should be required (by US and EU).

Nov 6, 2022 at 6:07pmWeb
Show threadChristie DudleyNov 6, 2022
@mmangus @pluralistic @sebastian that sounds great, but who sets the standards. Interoperability has always been at odds with corporations setting and controlling standards.
Show threadmmangus Nov 6, 2022

@longobord @pluralistic @sebastian

Not an easy answer, but it's something that USA/EU law should start to regulate.

Show threadHaydenNov 6, 2022
@mmangus @sebastian @pluralistic
Here in Europe (UK) GDPR already gives the individual huge rights to Data Portability "to obtain and reuse their personal data for their own purposes across different services" . The issue is that beat practice is not cited and nobody is forced to adopt it.
Show threadmmangus Nov 7, 2022

@haydens @sebastian @pluralistic
I looked at GDPR and yes, several statements affirm that user rights include <<...the data subject should have the right to have the personal data transmitted directly from one controller to another>>:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=OJ:L:2016:119:FULL&from=EN

Interesting.

Show thread[email protected]Nov 6, 2022
@mmangus @sebastian @pluralistic Yes, it really should be required.