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   Greg Vernon (alpinegreg@mastodon.green)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 22:14:05 JST Greg Vernon

   • Cory Doctorow

   Some great thoughts by @pluralistic

   A number of us are stuck on #facebook due to lockin by friends and family. Especially those of us that have migrated to other corners of the globe from those friends and family.

   https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/14/contesting-popularity/#everybody-samba

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     Allyson Shaw (allysonshaw@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 22:51:54 JST Allyson Shaw

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     • Cory Doctorow

     @pluralistic @alpinegreg “Federation is to social media what fire-exits are to nightclubs: a way for people to escape if the party turns deadly:” exactly.

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     Greg Vernon (alpinegreg@mastodon.green)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 04:53:53 JST Greg Vernon

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     • Cory Doctorow
     • Allyson Shaw

     @AllysonShaw @pluralistic

     So, I think a successful FB successor needs to be something independent and federated. Mastodon does Twitter reasonably well.

     I guess #FreeBook, as I would call it should run on federated servers. Users could publish their own feeds, kind of like ATOM worked for with blogs. You put your feed on your server and people that know you subscribe. You should be able to unsubscribe people as well. Should handle various media well.

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     Allyson Shaw (allysonshaw@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 04:54:00 JST Allyson Shaw

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     • Cory Doctorow

     @pluralistic @alpinegreg what aspects of FB do you feel would translate here? Groups-pages-or the address-book aspect? Or something else? I’m not familiar with either cloud!

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     Greg Vernon (alpinegreg@mastodon.green)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 04:54:01 JST Greg Vernon

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     • Allyson Shaw

     @AllysonShaw @pluralistic

     We need our own alternative to #facebook. Kind of like #owncloud or #nextcloud, if you will, but for our social media.