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   william.maggos (wjmaggos@liberal.city)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 02:19:47 JST william.maggos

   • Evan Prodromou 🎏

   @evan

   I think the best way to do this would be libraries. If AP takes over social media, we're going to need something like most people having their personal account on a local instance if we want to stay sufficiently decentralized. and I'd imagine it would be a server like mastodon but with a lot of extra functionality to handle community concerns ala Nextdoor.

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     Evan Prodromou 🎏 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 02:19:46 JST Evan Prodromou 🎏

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     @wjmaggos Does it have to be either-or? We need all kinds of account servers, with all kinds of governance models.

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     Evan Prodromou 🎏 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 02:43:36 JST Evan Prodromou 🎏

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     • Ben Pate 🤘🏻

     @benpate @wjmaggos Could be libraries, could be neighbourhood associations. Could be churches, synagogues or mosques. Could be mobile phone companies, could be cooperatives. There's no one kind of entity that has sites on the Web, and there shouldn't be one kind of entity that has services on the Social Web.

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     Ben Pate 🤘🏻 (benpate@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 02:43:37 JST Ben Pate 🤘🏻

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     • Evan Prodromou 🎏

     @wjmaggos @evan

     yeah, local libraries would probably be better. Esp. with centralization concerns - too much power for a national postal service might be bad.

     I *do* think governments have missed an opportunity to authenticate identity online. What if the post office (or library) had a way for me to establish my identity, like a digital ID card that I could use online when I need to prove who I am?

     Right now, that role is taken up by credit card companies and email providers.

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     Evan Prodromou 🎏 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 04:25:52 JST Evan Prodromou 🎏

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     • Don Marti

     @dmarti @wjmaggos like https://xoxo.zone/ ?

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     Don Marti (dmarti@federate.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 04:25:54 JST Don Marti

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     • Evan Prodromou 🎏

     @evan @wjmaggos good point--imho a server would be a great extra for an annual event like a conference or trade show