A new narrative is coming...

#DisorderedDiscourse

It will be the argument of the establishment, that we need to return to a few trusted sources. That all decentralized #SocialMedia should be thought of as #AlgoMedia, where the business model pushes the worst stuff to go viral. That basically the fedi, podcasts and blog/newsletters should not exist. They are not properly vetted.

While they are right about big tech, they are wrong about us. Trust the people. Fuck their money. #DemocracyOfReach

@evan @dansup

I have a big civic vision of what we're doing here ( #DemocracyOfReach) but otherwise...

I don't think there's wide agreement on what problems we are solving. people don't see social media as essential and so why does it need to be decentralized? who cares about more entertainment options, we have plenty. and the establishment would rather a few people control the information/opinion flow anyway. and can't we just text or email each other? that's basically decentralized already.

A new narrative is coming...

#DisorderedDiscourse

It will be the argument of the establishment, that we need to return to a few trusted sources. That all decentralized #SocialMedia should be thought of as #AlgoMedia, where the business model pushes the worst stuff to go viral. That basically the fedi, podcasts and blog/newsletters should not exist. They are not properly vetted.

While they are right about big tech, they are wrong about us. Trust the people. Fuck their money. #DemocracyOfReach

@Crissy #DemocracyOfReach

@futurebird

I call it #DemocracyOfReach.

imo "social networking" is more about private groups, friends and family ala FB.

but decentralized "social media" promises the public that we can regain control over our collective attention. that via boosts, we can decide together what info, ideas and art goes viral. not corporate media, big tech or advertisers (including politicians spending donor cash). it's revolutionary.

it's not microblogging but our social news feed. build AP into everything.

@futurebird

I call it #DemocracyOfReach.

imo "social networking" is more about private groups, friends and family ala FB.

but decentralized "social media" promises the public that we can regain control over our collective attention. that via boosts, we can decide together what info, ideas and art goes viral. not corporate media, big tech or advertisers (including politicians spending donor cash). it's revolutionary.

it's not microblogging but our social news feed. build AP into everything.

Most of the money that gets donated to political campaigns, gets spent on advertising. Getting people off media distribution systems with ads and instead funding the work directly, would do so much to fix our political process.

It's a huge part of why I want the #SocialWeb and #WebMonetization to win.

#DemocracyOfReach #PublicPatron

@evan @blaine

so don't we have to propose visions and see which ones make the most sense, are most popular, are compatible?

what's special about social media is the boost. virality. not community or the public square. making it decentralized without algos or ads puts the people fully in control. collectively we can determine what info, ideas and art gets the most attention. I think that's the revolution @rabble talks about. I call it #DemocracyOfReach.

which protocol makes that most likely?

@darius @Gargron

and I'm glad. public to the world. like a blog. decentralized social media is about the people deciding what gets attention. boosts. that's really important. it's a fix for owners of big media and advertisers dominating culture. imo we should embrace this. #DemocracyOfReach

social networking is humans connecting. important but not necessarily visible to a third party. it could also be a text or phone call.

to me, social media is OG twitter while a social network is more FB.

"conflict entrepreneurs"

I'm not sure if this refers to the people running the services or show hosts, but I like it.

I just worry that people won't separate decentralized social media from closed services with algos and ads. imo much of the cable news business model is just a lesser version of the combo of the divisive commentators and the big tech algos that drive people to them for profit.

the #SocialWeb is a way to break free from all of that. #DemocracyOfReach

exits are great but AFAICT the AT structure will mean that most governments and journalists will never have direct access to the public in the same way that they can (and I think will) by running their own AP server. as regards why decentralization matters imo (#DemocracyOfReach), I think this is essential.

but doesn't the web imply certain protocols like HTTP? what's special about social media is the boost that enables extreme virality. when decentralized, it allows the public to rival/surpass mass media as determiners of what gets attention. that's essential to restore democracy in an age of big money media and advertising.

#DemocracyOfReach

when you give others control over attention, it will be abused. as much as people might want a corporate algo or prefer ads as a funding source or enjoy a certain closed platform, it will be bad for democracy.

we have a huge opportunity with fedi to do better. so much of our political dysfunction comes down to using mass media where money buys attention. we just have to focus on the mission, spread the ideas and build technology to enable it. #DemocracyOfReach

it's an attention layer for the open web. the 90s gave us the opportunity to put up anything and be seen by the world, but most sites were ignored. until social media, outside of Google, most sites relied on being mentioned by mass media to get traffic. decentralized social media now means the public can decide for itself what deserves to go viral outside, not media owners or advertisers. that's the revolution. #DemocracyOfReach

I think I largely agree but imo it depends on how we handle the money. Creators need to get paid to be able to spend time on what we love, but let's get it to them and not corporate middlemen. Please see below.

And I see social media as much bigger than networks of friends, but how we fix the power of money over cultural attention. How we get a media pushed more to serve the public interest than their own. #DemocracyOfReach

https://liberal.city/@wjmaggos/113799203375043515

I love this. My only quibble:

"Back then, the model was about connecting information – documents – using funny-looking syntax. www followed by dot notation and slashes. Today, it's about connecting individuals – people – using funny-looking syntax. This time, @ symbols."

imo that's "social networking" but #ghost federating is really huge for "social media". adding an attention layer to the open web. letting people not money decide what goes viral. #DemocracyOfReach