Reposted by im'bcmgs'im
Taking this a step farther, what if we popularize the idea of Account Service Providers (ASP) and advocating for laws where:
- accounts on the internet are separate from apps/platforms
- ASPs follow net neutrality
- ASPs must interop so accounts freely move between them (like phone numbers)
![phone on easel, journal and behind it. vaguely broken screen.
journal’s left half pager, obstructed mostly by the phone reads at the top:
“i really do have to return this phone
maybe i just take photo of it and”
journal’s right page, only top right censored by a lego:
“I don’t like being alone
that’s what I’m concluding
—-
[x] helmet pick up
[x] *gibberish even to me*
I need to buy
more pens
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I remember in 2016 elections
I played around with markov chains
I’d feed them a hashtag and have bots
spit out right wing absurdity
@ some point, it stopped being funny.
the data crunching got better and
and so did the decision making algorithms
but then they blended my favorite
computer interface, with search + filesystem
code became harder to Verify
and libraries lost trust”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gqorgf2irpe5vy6osekgc3be/bafkreifseu4irwe4epgy37x5co37vvwodlfd7svxkfzg2qbskvbb4dzfja)