I'm kind of confused about people wanting distributed social networks for somehow privacy reasons... It is the sharing data that violates privacy. Making an open standard for that could very well make it easier to mine social data.
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I think the hypothesis is that decentralizing would lead to less concentration of information.
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but it is the bad actors that are really the problems. It isn't facebook, it is the cambridge analyticas, right? They will tool up and be unstoppable on an open protocol of poorly secured social servers, no?
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@aral is a good entry point on the subject. For example, "the nature of the self in the digital age" is a nice entry point (but just that, especially for technology aware people) https://ar.al/notes/the-nature-of-the-self-in-the-digital-age/ …1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
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