Open social media has a new fan: U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna. The congressman for California's 17th Congressional District appeared on Kara Swisher's "On" podcast last week and talked about Bluesky, @surf, and the importance of being able to construct your own social graph, take your followers where you go, and opt out of algorithms. Here's the full episode:
#SocialMedia #OpenSocial #SurfSocial #Bluesky #ProtocolsNotPlatforms #ATProto #ActivityPub
@Flipboard @surf I totally did a spit-take when I got to that part. I had to rewind and make sure I was hearing right. Rep Ro Khanna was saying the absolute best things possible about the importance of the open social web! 🙌
@jaredwhite Yes! The Flipboard/Surf Slack channels were popping!
"Have you followed this whole open social web movement basically the what, what Blue Sky is or Surf is? Yeah. I mean I, to me that's here, here is now what I think is the top thing. We need to require these of these big tech platforms. They need to be compatible with the open social web. They, they should be required by law. If you're X, if you're Facebook, if you're TikTok to be compatible with the open social web, what does that mean? Now I can take all my followers, all my contacts from those other platforms and construct my own social media graph where I don't have to have the algorithmic chunk."
