"Anyone in the Fediverse can easily talk to other people in the Fediverse," writes Cory Doctorow, " but they can't talk to the people they leave behind on the big platforms like Facebook and Twitter." And that's how services like Twitter and Facebook hang on to their users, even as they create an increasingly unpleasant environment for them. These services could interact with other social media services, but they won't. Doctorow calls for passage of 'the ACCESS Act,' similar to Europe's Digital Markets Act (DMA), "which promises to impose interoperability on giant social media platforms... eventually." I am less sanguine about the possibility of a legislated solution, since the billionaires who own these companies can but as much legislative influence as they want. But I'm not sure what else would open up social media.
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