Chris TrottierYes, I think TikTok should be banned.
I also think Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Snapchat, Pinterest, YouTube, and Reddit should be banned.
Anything that requires surveillance capitalism should be banned.
Some people are like, “Build better consumer protections for data privacy.”
No, you need something far stronger than “protections”.
It should be downright illegal for any company or entity to track, file, catalogue, serialize, or index anyone without their explicit consent.
Further, no company or entity should own your social presence, identity, or social graph.
Nobody’s life should be deemed as an asset or property of someone else.
I am not a conduit of personal data that exists to be mined.
I am a human being.
When I talk to another human being, I see a human being.
Big Social sees a vector for data that’s exploitable.
Why do we allow Big Social to exist?
The Blue Blurr@atomicpoet With YouTube specifically, I feel like the sheer volume of content, whether entertaining or educational, would be a logistical impossibility to store (at least, for now) without something like alphabet inc. owning it. I feel like a good bandage for the time being though is using different front-ends, like invidious, to get rid of the surveillance tracking & ads. As for the rest…
Let them burn. (If you have a different opinion please let me know, genuinely curious what your thoughts are.)
Let them burn. (If you have a different opinion please let me know, genuinely curious what your thoughts are.)
Michael Carducci@TBB @atomicpoet I would submit it would be logistically impossible to store _centrally_ by any single entity without the means to build such vast infrastructure, in the same way the world-wide-web would be logistically infeasible to store all the web content by a single, central entity.
Podcasts are a good example of how a decentralized media network can look. Producers independently store content all over the place, but consumers get a seamless experience. Peertube may accomplish the same.
@Michaelcarducci @atomicpoet One problem I could foresee with going with the podcast route would be smaller content creators could have a tough time storing all their own content. Do you have any thoughts on a solution to this? Like community owned free storage pools?
@TBB @atomicpoet when I hosted a tech podcast for a few years. I opted to pay a few $/month for hosting but could have self-hosted.
Discovery or monetization are other challenges but it seems all the major podcast apps are happy to make recommendations & are supporting subscription models now which is a good start.
I haven’t looked very deeply at peertube but presumably a fediverse “YouTube” will follow the same model as mastodon for community-owned storage and service instances.