Mike Masnick ✅Dec 21, 2022
I wrote about how I cannot understand why anyone is interested in joining a new centralized social media platform when we now have a great opportunity to move to protocols instead of platforms. https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/21/why-would-anyone-use-another-centralized-social-media-service-after-this/
Why Would Anyone Use Another Centralized Social Media Service After This?

So, it’s been quite a year for legacy, centralized social media — and all without any really big change to the laws that govern it (yet — the EU’s are coming into force shortly, but pos…

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Show threadJeffrey T. Davis
@mmasnick Maybe not the most important feature, but a clear issue for Mastodon and similar: verification. It's valuable for readers and for civic info. Self-verification has many pitfalls that I won't spend time on because, simply, I think it misses the point. When I'm reading and see that my mayor has posted something, I want *someone else* to say "yes, checks out". I don't want to do the homework myself and I don't want to count on public figures having bothered to do so or not.
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Show threadJeffrey T. DavisDec 21, 2022
@mmasnick For that, a central trusted authority is a feature not a bug. That can work well in tandem with an open, decentralized protocol, but it'll need revenue and a way to get there from here. I don't think we've got that figured out.