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>>dredmo+(OP)
This is lame. The poster made a good point. If it’s not your platform, then you don’t own it.

so if I started a new sub Reddit that was part of a particular company initiative and connected people with it, I would not own that sub Reddit because it is not my platform.

this is a problem.

>>nashas+ta
Yeah, the fundamental problem here is social medias ought to be a protocol, not a platform.

Something where ownership of the content and the virtual space is democratized or at least actually owned by someone in particular while still maintaining the capability to CDN the content.

This way you can still curate and you can still scale, but you also aren't held to the whims of whatever person or parent corporation owns the whole space behind the scenes.

>>JustBr+5p
Reddit is the only platform that makes sense as a protocol.

The problem is not the protocol. But the user network. And the server network. And the ad network. They need to be made into protocols too.

Imagine git. Now imagine github. Now imagine gitlab. Github owns the entire social networking on its platform. It is not distributed at all. So does gitlab.