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Comment by dwaltrip | Hacker News Reader

I think this is definitely a very interesting line of discussion for this problem.

I really like the idea of essentially forcing federation protocols to be developed. E-mail was an overwhelming success -- we should look for ways to repeat that success with other aspects.

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What about developing federated protocols by 'just doing it'.

How about creating a open standard for social media,i.e, open API so that no matter what platform you use, you can connect to ppl on other platforms. This should introduce more competition in the market without creating a loophole to regulate internet.

so ppl would be able to choose platform based on variety of variables like advertisements, data collection, looks, usability.... just an idea

OStatus[1] and ActivityPub[2][3] already exist.

[1]: https://www.w3.org/community/ostatus/wiki/images/9/93/OStatu...

[2]: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/

[3]: http://activitypub.rocks/

cool...last I heard about MediaGoblin (a self-hosted YouTube/flicker media-sharing clone), they were trying to implement ActivityPub so that MediaGoblin instances could be federated. However, I haven't seen any updated news from them in over a year.

https://mediagoblin.org/news/tpac-2016-and-review-activitypu...

Creating standards is the easy part, uptake is a whole other beast.

Mastodon uses ActivityPub and has over a million users

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