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this is a draft as I didn't have time to make it neat
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Social media
Policy based
Moderation in the hands of users instead of hands of the service provider
Jung archetypes
Doing away with top down Freudian mindfuckery
Ending the Edward Bernays (Freuds Nephew) marketing cohorts that can and will be abused by greed based economy.
I never used facebook, I tuned out of social media after seeing the MySpace 'friending capitalism' getting ever more insane and then see the music industry taking over the platform to use it as a very blunt marketing tool. It was kinda funny how the response was from the most creative people on MySpace and how they gave a signal to MySpace with the Suicide Machine that an art-collective build to automate the unfriending process and delete the account once it was finished. I can't fully remember how Suicide Machine 2.0 worked as I think that was rolled out for facebook, and I never bothered to use facebook.
Time went by and at some point someone invided me to join a thing called Steemit that sounded very promising as it would provide an option to earn money with creative content online. I had big doubts that that would work as I had some experience with music industry and greedy overlords. But I was open minded and I went to have a look what was happening in that space. Greed was already rampant when I joined but I did not see it as I had to waste a lot of time with the bureaucracy of the platform and technical stuff how the platform worked and how the capitalism supposed to work. But that turned out to be worse then I expected. I'm sure the early adopters beg to differ as they had a chance to be highly succesful. To me it looked like a maffia ring where new kids were being groomed to work for the bosses. It also required a discord account with additional headaches etc. For some it appeared to be working. But not for me. Eventually I left the scene after dealing with some backward nonsense. My dad passe away during that time and I didn't have time to really round off my departure. I never bothered to say my goodbye as I lost access to accounts and most of the people were just greedy capitalists. However, there were a few people that I still wanted to keep in touch with. But it was to much hoop jumping to get back on discord. This is a very limited story about that experience.
I also had a look at VK, as I already singned up there as some people were enthusiast about it because it supposed to have a less bullshit policy then other platforms. And it was very different indeed, but just another kind of bullshit. But I must admit that I found it very interesting to see that some bullshit can be dealth with in a very refreshing manner. Still there was some nonsense that didn't work for me. Eventually that also found it's end.
During this time I played with Scuttlebut BeakerBrowser and a few other things. And Beaker wit all it's flaws made an impression. I'm not a software dev, I tried to install the node stuff, but soon discovered that this is not for me. Still I did see a few very big advantages in the distributed model that convinced me that all account and policy based platforms are problematic and the distributed model is an elegant way to do things different. Anyway, BeakerBrowser was put on the shelf by its dev. So that option disappeared.
I also played with Galacteek, for some time I managed to work with it, I recently gave it another try and couldn't figure out how it works anymore.
I'm now trying the Gemini protocol and while I do like it, I'm seeing the same problems I see on all other social media. But then exponentially. As every platform has it's own policy and I can't keep track of all the differences. As a publishing platform it could work. But it wil be one hell of a challenge to find a platform with the right policy specially when there are ever more options, it's good to have choice, but the plethora of policies and the probabillity that policies keep changing wil be a headache for the end user.
It would be better if the user would be it's own moderater. Like how people behave in real life. And I think Beaker's distributed model is the best one in that direction mainly because a users content is NOT on a hosted service that needs a policy and moderators to enforce that policy. It still lacked options for users to model their own moderation/policy, but by having the content all on the users own end without a hosting provider in the middle a lot of the headache is out of the way already.
On gemini's social media section, not sure how to name it as I also see a publishing section without the social frameworks, I see the same policy problematics. Where the hosting provider feels the need to have a policy to self protect. And then that same provider needs to enforce that policy. While not having the resources to be a police force to take control over that what people think and write.
I think what I think, every human should be allowed his or her own thoughts, and the freedom to express those idea's without being speech moderated. So the model is backwards. And Beakers model could offer some solutions on the providers problematics. Yet it still didn't have the options that I envision to let the users 'moderate' on their own behalf, and an option to form their own social landscape. Like how people do in real life, in a pub, sport clubs, at work, in the neighborhood. I know this is a very different approach and it will come with a shitload of new challenges. But it could heal a few open wounds that come with the facebook control matrix model that looks like a dictatorship. Where one man decides how the world needs to behave. Instead of a democratic one where every user can shape it's own social spheres.
It not my goal to turn people into Beaker fans. But I hope that I can inspire someone to make gemini distributed like torrents. Where every author is a DHT and hosts it's own content, and where the clients distribute that what they consume for a limited amount of time, say 48 hours, or longer if they choose to.
I have no clue how dificult this is to build. But as most of this already exists I wonder how difficult it is for a creative hacker to add these technologies up in an elegant manner.
Combine Transmission with TOR or I2P and include gemini. I don't know what I'm saying, but to me it makes sense if Lagrange could be a TOR I2P Transmission 'browser' for .gmi capsules.
Or does this sound like I'm an alien?
I don't really have the time to write essays like this as I have a few other things to deal with. But to me it feels important to share this idea. Right here, right now.
I now need to run... I'm already half an hour late. But I had to finish this brainwave while it's hot.