TLDR: Egyre nehezebb megfelelni a különböző előírásoknak és ők is elismerik, hogy a social média a jelenlegi formájában a megosztottságot és a felháborodást támogatja, emiatt egy nyílt protokollt akarnak létrehozni, aminek a twitter csak az egyik megjelenítő felülete lenne.
Twitter is funding a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media. The goal is for Twitter to ultimately be a client of this standard.
twitter was so open early on that many saw its potential to be a decentralized internet standard, like SMTP (email protocol). For a variety of reasons, all reasonable at the time, we took a different path and increasingly centralized Twitter. But a lot’s changed over the years…
First, we’re facing entirely new challenges centralized solutions are struggling to meet. For instance, centralized enforcement of global policy to address abuse and misleading information is unlikely to scale over the long-term without placing far too much burden on people.
Second, the value of social media is shifting away from content hosting and removal, and towards recommendation algorithms directing one’s attention. Unfortunately, these algorithms are typically proprietary, and one can’t choose or build alternatives. Yet.
Third, existing social media incentives frequently lead to attention being focused on content and conversation that sparks controversy and outrage, rather than conversation which informs and promotes health.
- @jack (CEO of Twitter) - https://twitter.com/jack/status/1204766078468911106
Bár szkeptikus vagyok, hogy ebből lesz bármi is, de szerintem ez hatalmas lépés egy jó irányba, bár nem oldana meg minden problémát. (pl. a megosztottságon szerintem nem javítana)