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Social Networks & Sociable Protocols
- -Un-censorable developer access - Anyone with an idea should be able to interact with the data and connections with people’s permission.
from Social Networks & Sociable Protocols by Ric Burton
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- Social Networks - MySpace, Friendster, Facebook and LinkedIn lead the charge to map out people’s relationships on the Internet. They used the best technology that they had access to at the time: a Delaware Corporation and racks of privately owned servers. This concentrated enormous amounts of power and capital in the hands of a few Silicon Valley C... See more
from Social Networks & Sociable Protocols by Ric Burton
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- Earning is way more powerful than getting likes. If those two elements can be interwoven into the fabric of a network, it will mean people can make money from their time in new ways. Today, the bluntest tool in social is where you build an audience and then try to sell to it. We are going to see so many new experiments around paying people for cont... See more
from Social Networks & Sociable Protocols by Ric Burton
sari added 3y ago
- Sociable Networks - When I enter a room on Clubhouse, laugh at TikTok video, reply to someone on Twitter, or watch someone share some knowledge on YouTube, I find a different part of my brain is lighting up. It is a sociable interaction where I am connecting with someone outside my circles. I think of the products that are produced by these compani... See more
from Social Networks & Sociable Protocols by Ric Burton
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- A Sociable Protocol must meet a few tests:
from Social Networks & Sociable Protocols by Ric Burton
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- -Permanent data storage - We cannot keep locating our social connections and memories inside servers controlled by for-profit companies.
from Social Networks & Sociable Protocols by Ric Burton
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- -Community-controlled censorship - I believe censorship should happen at the app layer, not the protocol layer. You can email child porn but Gmail will not show it to you. You might want Donald Trump removed, but I want to hear from the sitting President. People must be able to choose apps that tap into a common protocol with different censorship l... See more
from Social Networks & Sociable Protocols by Ric Burton
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- Social Protocols - These were built at the beginning of the Internet. They allowed individuals who knew each others’ contact details to contact each other. Groups could form over email threads (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) and IRC Channels (Internet Relay Chat). These protocols were really powerful for communication but they were unable to store ... See more
from Social Networks & Sociable Protocols by Ric Burton
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- I do not believe this will come from a team of wealthy engineers at Twitter through their Bluesky initiative. New technological revolutions come from young teams with nothing to lose and a totally new perspective.
from Social Networks & Sociable Protocols by Ric Burton
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