Jack Dorsey's Vision Of The Future Of Social Media

Dorsey says he's working to fund an open internet protocol to deny governments and corporations the ability to control the public conversation.

"It's critical that the people have tools to resist this, and that those tools are ultimately owned by the people. Allowing a government or a few corporations to own the public conversation is a path towards centralized control," Dorsey said in his blog post.

"I'm a strong believer that any content produced by someone for the internet should be permanent until the original author chooses to delete it," Dorsey continued. "It should be always available and addressable. Content takedowns and suspensions should not be possible. Doing so complicates important context, learning, and enforcement of illegal activity. There are significant issues with this stance of course, but starting with this principle will allow for far better solutions than we have today. The internet is trending towards a world were storage is 'free' and infinite, which places all the actual value on how to discover and see content."

"As far as the free and open social media protocol goes, there are many competing projects: @bluesky is one with the AT Protocol, Mastodon another, Matrix yet another…and there will be many more. One will have a chance at becoming a standard like HTTP or SMTP. This isn't about a 'decentralized Twitter.' This is a focused and urgent push for a foundational core technology standard to make social media a native part of the internet. I believe this is critical both to Twitter's future, and the public conversation's ability to truly serve the people, which helps hold governments and corporations accountable. And hopefully makes it all a lot more fun and informative again".

Will UNA.io be apart of this revolution?

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    • The internet was not put in place to distribute information to the general public it was put there to control the flow of information, the first thing that happens in war is an attack on the information infrastructure, or in Iran's and some other countries cases, the government restricts it and or only pushes its message. I think the big hurdle for Jack's plan is most everyone uses AWS, GCP, Azure, and the rest so for it to work he would have to provide all cloud services I think. With regards to whether UNA will be a part of it, I can tell you it already is...

      • We've been looking at the Matrix protocol for a while now. It's promising. Adoption of ActivityPUB is happening and it'd be very interesting to see what BlyeSky does with ATprotocol. Definitely something want to see succeed and will implement when it's production-ready. There's a chance we may participate in development, too.

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