I think we face the usual problem of working on and implementing policy for yesterday's issues.

* We are coming out of ten years of Blockchain mess

* Now we are into #AI mess, the is no intelligence in the current round, only artificial writing.

Let's look at what actually matters

The original openweb had #4opens in this context #opendata is the issue we are talking about.

We then had 20 years of the #dotcons with #closeddata. Which you have talked about.

Coming out of this, we have an active openweb reboot happing with federation and opendata.

For example with #Mastodon, the #Fediverse, #bluesky and #Nosta which have grown from half a million to 10 to 15 million users over the last year. #WordPress building #ActivityPub support for a quarter of the internet and #Failbook's #threads.

You are seeing a different world back to #opendata, if you run a mastodon instance you will have a large part of the content of the Fediverse sitting in your database in plan text....

Take this into account with policy and regulation please

@witchescauldron I agree except that the part of the Fediverse that sits on your server in plain text is generally (with a few exceptions that are really hard to work around) stuff that users have intended to publish to the Internet in plain text. So it's not like we need to encumber fedi server operators with regulation IMO
@wilbr am happy with public data being #opendata and a part of a "commons" that we activity need.