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Bridging the Open Web and APIs: Alternative Social Media Alongside the Corporate Web 2022-03-02 Jamie Jackson
We analyzed GitHub issues to find breakdowns when syndicating between brid.gy and Facebook. Results explore how alternative social media can coexist w/ the corporate web
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There’s A Facebook Alternative, It’s Called Self-Sovereign Identity —coindesk
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interested users will be able to create a self-sovereign identity on the platform by following the steps on the social.network landing page (h/t @SelfSovID
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Decentralized publication, micro-publication and moderation-- what the real pitfalls would be. by Kim Duffy, Juan Caballero
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https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1RMozl86wihBw8_rJvC97tUUjYVpTHk6aF8QOs_ng6l0/edit?usp=sharing
Set-up Presentation:
- Silos and echo chambers?
- Countermeasures?
- Pink Checkmark system? Verify all accounts or continue 2-class system
- Can we still make money?
- Moderation
- Clients and API openness - on what axes will they compete? Can they compete on algos? Community curation?
- How important is authenticity? Each tweet signed?
- Editable cheeps?
- Delete cheeps?
- Mike Jones: Listening to Daniel’s ION presentation, I asked from the POV of a naïve person, what are these ION DIDs good for in the first place; his answer was
- Daniel wants identities that Twitter can’t take away from Donald Trump
- Child pornographers would also then be sovereign over their identifiers
- Kim: People select their own echo chambers
- Juan: Echo chamber / child porn dynamics have a lot in common (HBO Documentary “into the storm”)
- Erica: Social media as a way to advertise, finding markets. Want to market to people who are interested
- Small business, organic marketing, micro-commerce
- Bullying, social problems, child protection
Scuttlebutt
- https://scuttlebutt.nz/
- https://scuttlebutt.nz/get-started/
- https://github.com/ssbc/ssb-server/wiki/#ssbrooms
- https://ssbc.github.io/scuttlebutt-protocol-guide/
- Kepler: Permissioned Replicated Storage for Decentralized Applications by Charles Cunningham, Wayne Chang
- Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_oaVcx2IEbUEr9I-23Fd1e9ZMkIYtxpJe76zYq1oVZE/edit?usp=sharing
- Secure Scuttlebutt Outro
Secure Scuttlebutt, Decentralized Identifiers, Key Management
Dmitri expressed interest in SSB and reported using but then having lost their key (when switching/resetting devices?). Expressed Frustration (with the key recovery process). Have question, how could SSB use DIDs?
Charles responded that there is a draft PR on DID Spec Registries adding a SSB DID method a few days ago.