Comment No Reason for Proprietary Social Media - Protocols (Score 1) 122
There is literally no reason for youtube, facebook, X, tictoc, instagram, netflix, etc.
All of these could be better replaced with open protocols for which you use your own choice of client applications or make new ones.
For streaming movies, for example, imagine where movie studios just make their movies available and set their prices and conditions. Similarly, consumers specify the prices and conditions they are interested in and the matches are made automatic. For example, I want to pay $30 per month for access to 20 scifi, action, and action-adventure movies and series, randomly selected at the beginning of each month, preferring newer, for the month. Have an option to specify which to keep and when to remove.
The protocol needs rich criteria and logic building but this can be done. Studio's made need to buy server / storage hardware or pay third party for that but not a big deal. Consumers could create the plans they want and the market would show them what they'd get for what they want and want to pay for it.
Also -- why have a single company in charge of tweets? There is utterly no reason for any kind of proprietary control over social media. There should be good controls over how one chooses to accept/block content of interest to them. We could implement criteria for judging the legitimacy of posts to fight fake information. For example, are their primary sources? Crowd source the validation of this.