[OPLIN 4cast] OPLIN 4Cast #678: Will decentralizing Twitter solve its problems?

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OPLIN 4Cast #678: Will decentralizing Twitter solve its problems?
December 26th, 2019

[image: Twitter logo sign printed on paper hanging on a rope in the park.
Twitter is an online social networking popular social media.] A few weeks
ago, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted
<https://twitter.com/jack/status/1204766078468911106> that his company
would fund an outside research team, called Bluesky, to develop an "open
and decentralized standard for social media." What does that mean, exactly?
The best analogy might be email: in Gmail, for example, you aren't limited
to only sending email to other Gmail users; but because of the "Simple Mail
Transport Protocol," email works regardless of your client, and companies
like Superhuman <https://4cast.oplin.org/?p=7649> can build enhancements on
top of email. So what if you didn't need a Twitter account to tweet?

   -
   - Jack Dorsey Wants to Help You Create Your Own Twitter
   <https://www.wired.com/story/jack-dorsey-help-you-create-own-twitter/> [
   *Wired*] "The CEO tweeted that he's hiring a team to develop open source
   standards for decentralized social networks. His hope: It will spawn better
   ways to combat hate and harassment."
   - Hey @Jack Dorsey, decentralizing Twitter won’t solve hate speech
   problems
   <https://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/jack-dorsey-decentralizing-twitter-wont-solve-your-hate-speech-problems/>
   [*Digital Trends*] "The whole purpose of a decentralized platform is for
   users to be solely in control of their data, what they post, and what they
   see. They’re not in control of other people’s data, or what they see or
   interact with. If someone posts something illegal, how will law enforcement
   respond?"
   - Can Twitter Ever Be Decentralized?
   <https://slate.com/technology/2019/12/jack-dorsey-open-decentralized-twitter.html>
   [*Slate*] "A range of services for decentralized social media already
   link together in the Fediverse—a collection of interoperable social
   networks that use open standards and protocols to talk to one another. But
   instead of integrating with current solutions, Dorsey wants to
   spend years developing a new standard."
   - Twitter wants to decentralize, but decentralized social network
   creators don’t trust it
   <https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/12/21012553/twitter-bluesky-decentralized-social-network-developers-reaction-mastodon-activitypub>
   [*The Verge*] "If Twitter wants to create their own protocol instead of
   using what’s already out there, then it’s a naked power move to get control
   over an area that they’ve traditionally ignored."

*From the Ohio Web Library <http://ohioweblibrary.org>:*

   - Mateos, Evelyn. “Moving Away From Twitter: Masthead, a Social Media
   Platform for Content Creators, Is Made for News Discussion
   <https://proxy.oplin.org:2111/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=136249312&site=ehost-live>
   .” *Editor & Publisher*, vol. 152, no. 5, May 2019, p. 8.
   - Vesoulis, Abby. “How Gab Became the Social Media Site Where the
   Pittsburgh Suspect’s Alleged Anti-Semitism Thrived
   <https://proxy.oplin.org:2111/login.aspx?direct=true&db=buh&AN=132655647&site=ehost-live>
   .” *Time.Com*, Oct. 2018, p. N.PAG.
   - Zhao, Wenjia. “Rethinking the Social Network: 3 Open-Source
   Alternatives to Facebook
   <https://proxy.oplin.org:2111/login.aspx?direct=true&db=buh&AN=77528287&site=ehost-live>
   .” *Forbes.Com*, June 2012, p. 2.

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