Jeff JarvisNov 25, 2022
With Twitter's collapse, funders should start helping build up federated discourse: supporting development of better security, of moderation aids, of proposals for affordances welcoming to Black Twitter and other communities. Stop thinking top down. Start thinking emergent.
Stop thinking about how to help newspapers. Start thinking about how to help communities and culture speaking for themselves. This is a place to start.
Show threadShannonNov 25, 2022
@jeffjarvis We could make this sort of the true public square everyone seems to think we need. But we need some sort of non-governmental way of doing it. Not sure how... we can all donate to our respective servers to keep them going. And like any community, we can volunteer to help. They need moderators as an example.
Show threadMacCruiskeen
@wasootch @jeffjarvis the thing about a public square is that it is owned, directly or indirectly, by the public that uses it. No privately owned space can really be a complete substitute for that. ‘Social media’ is not the public square, and never has been. FB, Twitter, etc., are just feedlots that exist to harvest value from the users. Even Mastadon is essentially a lot of tiny fiefdoms.
Nov 25, 2022 at 3:59pmWeb