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   Ethan Schoonover (ethanschoonover@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 04:38:24 JST Ethan Schoonover

   We need FEMA for social media.

   And by “FEMA” I mean structured, actionable plans for when social media disasters strike. What-if scenarios that allow us to recover without losing everything.

   (And by disasters, I mean the present oligarchy.)
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     Ethan Schoonover (ethanschoonover@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 04:38:23 JST Ethan Schoonover

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     Example How-tos in the event of those what-ifs:

     How-to maintain your existing social graph
     How-to migrate your identity
     etc.
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     Augusto Campos repeated this.
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     Ethan Schoonover (ethanschoonover@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 04:38:23 JST Ethan Schoonover

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     I do emergency disaster response volunteer work & we spend a lot of time thinking about how to educate people and prepare for disaster on multiple levels: personal level, family level, community level, municipal infrastructure level.

     We need to do this for social media as well.
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     Ethan Schoonover (ethanschoonover@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 04:38:24 JST Ethan Schoonover

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     Example What-ifs:

     What-if the fall of net neutrality makes accessing distributed social media harder?
     What-if a billionaire tries to buy out bluesky or a major mastodon instance?
     What-if a primary distributed social media domain is seized?
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