Would something single sign on (SSO) even be possible? I think the convenience of having a single account for the family of federated platforms would be wildly convenient.
Of course folks could continue to have individual accounts on each platform if they wanted.
I also understand that it would create a very tempting target for hackers and it would need to use MFA (multi factor authentication).
Just a thought and I would like to see you all have to say.
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Yes, particularly if SSO compatible with other social media platforms.
Ideally, you could even upload GDPR data requests from servers and build up some of your post history in some way.
I think a lot of people would switch to something like Mastodon if transferring service with one service provider to another for hosting their content and connecting them to their old network was made much easier.
That’s almost the kind of thing the new FTC chair (who has publicly stated an agenda to reevaluate tech company anticompetitive behaviors) might want to end up looking into.
Fixing social media - and with it quite a lot else - may end up being as simple as classifying social media companies as common carriers of personal media content and connection data, who had to play nice with others.
If they needed to bring down their walled gardens and play fair in allowing users to take business and content elsewhere, the one thing capitalism is actually good at would so quickly change them all into platforms competing against each other for your business and data rather than only succeeding by effectively holding you hostage to their data retention.
More than any single federated platform, the idea of standardization of social media data - and its adoption even by Meta of everyone out there - may be setting up some very promising future developments.
Reddit threw oil on this fire at quite the worst timing for their long-term longevity.
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