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RT @dantley: @twitter is taking a bold step to improve the current state of social media by funding a team to develop an open standard. An… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @paraga: I’m incredibly excited for Twitter to kick off @bluesky, a new independent effort to develop a decentralized standard for socia… — PolitiTweet.org

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We’re calling this team @bluesky. Our CTO @ParagA will be running point to find a lead, who will then hire and direct the rest of the team. Please follow or DM @bluesky if you’re interested in learning more or joining! 🌐💬💙 — PolitiTweet.org

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This isn’t going to happen overnight. It will take many years to develop a sound, scalable, and usable decentralized standard for social media that paves the path to solving the challenges listed above. Our commitment is to fund this work to that point and beyond. — PolitiTweet.org

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We’d expect this team not only to develop a decentralized standard for social media, but to also build open community around it, inclusive of companies & organizations, researchers, civil society leaders, all who are thinking deeply about the consequences, positive and negative. — PolitiTweet.org

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There are MANY challenges to make this work that Twitter would feel right becoming a client of this standard. Which is why the work must be done transparently in the open, not owned by any single private corporation, furthering the open & decentralized principles of the internet. — PolitiTweet.org

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Why is this good for Twitter? It will allow us to access and contribute to a much larger corpus of public conversation, focus our efforts on building open recommendation algorithms which promote healthy conversation, and will force us to be far more innovative than in the past. — PolitiTweet.org

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Square is doing exactly this for bitcoin with @SqCrypto. For social media, we’d like this team to either find an existing decentralized standard they can help move forward, or failing that, create one from scratch. That’s the only direction we at Twitter, Inc. will provide. — PolitiTweet.org

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Recently we came across @mmasnick’s article “Protocols, Not Platforms” which captures a number of the challenges and solutions. But more importantly, it reminded us of a credible path forward: hire folks to develop a standard in the open. https://t.co/1kH7UcaNKO — PolitiTweet.org

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Some of these issues were emphasized by @stephen_wolfram in a blog post following his Senate hearing titled “Optimizing for Engagement: Understanding the Use of Persuasive Technology on Internet Platforms”. https://t.co/Oavx4xVskC — PolitiTweet.org

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Finally, new technologies have emerged to make a decentralized approach more viable. Blockchain points to a series of decentralized solutions for open and durable hosting, governance, and even monetization. Much work to be done, but the fundamentals are there. — PolitiTweet.org

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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. — PolitiTweet.org

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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. — PolitiTweet.org

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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. — PolitiTweet.org

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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… — PolitiTweet.org

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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. 🧵 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @gasca: This was so worth it... the whole time I kept muttering “this can’t be right... can it?” - a look into the deep sea... https://t… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @tim_cook: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is our common promise to uphold the inherent dignity of all. We all share this resp… — PolitiTweet.org

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@wongmjane Has been hidden in our production build strings for quite some time… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Policy: Empowering voices to join the public conversation is core to Twitter’s mission. 🌏🌍🌎 It is a mission that we celebrate on #Huma… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @samswey: We just published evaluations of all 58 California Sheriff’s Depts + 100 largest CA Police Depts. Data on police violence, arr… — PolitiTweet.org

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