Notices by Mike McCue (mike@flipboard.social), page 11

@CassandraVert Yes we are going through the new adaptation phase again for the social web which is the newest and most powerful part of the web. i.e. the web connects web sites. the social web connects people, web sites and posts. It is infinitely more powerful and the range of innovation and new opportunities is massive.

@CassandraVert That is exactly the right question to be asking. At the moment open means access to a lot more people and content. And there are a lot of services like kbin, Lemmy, pixelfed beyond mastodon that work reasonably well together.

But that's just the start. Open versions of closed systems (Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, etc) are very useful to have but it'll be exciting to see what innovative new directions these services can go and what totally new services launch next year.

It's #FollowFriday so here's a new batch of accounts we've federated from @Flipboard

Hope you enjoy.

@euronews — European news network

@fansided — fan-focused sports network

@LaughingSquid — art, culture and lifestyle

@macstories — publication about all things app

@thecollector — history, art, philosophy

@Pepijn @mastodonmigration and thanks for your detailed reply as well. I will make sure my team sees this.

@Brendanjones You make a good point that familiarity is helpful. i.e. I don't have to relearn something from scratch. The point I was getting at is that it's not enough for the open experience to be the same... it has to be fundamentally better to motivate people to switch.

This happened with AOL vs. the web. When really cool web sites emerged that were far better than anything AOL could do on their own, people switched. If the web was just a carbon copy of AOL, nobody would have switched.

@vmatt well, you raise a good question. For purposes of this post Win=most people around the world do social media via an open standard like ActivityPub from whatever app, whatever provider, with whatever group of people, using whatever algorithms with whatever compensatory model they prefer.

Lose=the big social media companies continue to own and run and lock in the majority of people on the planet.

@mastodonmigration @evan great point. Mastodon already has a number of these built in which is a good start.

@fromjason I don't know. But maybe I'll go and ask them.

@mastodonmigration I think there are some important actions to take in the coming months to prepare for the federation with threads. Has anyone made a list of key things we should focus on to protect people in the fediverse? For example @evan talked recently about the importance of being able to delete replies from a thread you started. I think people should also be able to opt out of quote posts as another example. Is there a group of people already talking about this?

- If those who have been working on open revert to closed in the name of preventing bad actors, closed will win.

- If open wins we get things like the web. Imperfect but far greater for humanity than most everyone being online via AOL.

- We’re at a precious moment in time for the fediverse. When it comes to social media, open has a real chance right now. And closed is on the ropes. Let’s not blow it.

- There need to be mechanisms to prevent the bad actors from screwing things up, to reward the good actors, and to educate the indifferent so they appreciate their new found openness.

- Most people outside the tech industry don’t understand open and aren’t motivated to switch to something just because it’s open.

- If open looks and feels the same as closed, closed will win.

- If open is more confusing than closed, closed will win.

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A thread on some tenets regarding open systems I feel compelled to relay:

- It’s extremely hard for open to ever compete with closed. It almost never succeeds.

- Every now and then open is given a chance due to unprecedented external events or pressures.

- In the rare event that open gains momentum, any actor can adopt it. That’s the point.

- The actors who adopt open will inevitably range from good to indifferent to bad.

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@joel_falcou @thomasfuchs I know for a fact that they are quite intelligent. And that makes this an even bigger problem.

@sickmatter well, fair point. I guess that will happen at some level. Fortunately it's not influencing my feed or broadcasting the fav to my followers.

@mybarkingdogs Totally. These kinds of mechanisms are incredibly helpful to protect against abuse. More features like this should be done. Notably, deleting a reply from a thread you started. It's your thread. You should be able to control who can be visible in it.

I was on @mike's Dot Social podcast to talk about Mastodon, #Threads (not the 1984 movie), and the social web. If you've got questions about any of those things, maybe we've covered them!

https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/eugen-rochko/

@kai @kissane @Gargron reading now

@thomasfuchs lol

@thomasfuchs It's worse than that I think. He actually believes his argument.

@thomasfuchs Yikes. Nazis should never be platformed or magnified. Ever. It still amazes me that seemingly smart people equivocate about this.