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Should we start a public petition?

EDIT: This is an idea that I’ve recently been advocating for; I just don’t know where to start. We have public parks, why can’t we have public spaces? Offer a contract every few years to be bid by large corporations such as AWS, or Microsoft. Administration by semi-public entities such as universities or NPR. Make it join the Fediverse to enable sharing of content.

What am I missing?

EDIT: User submitted content would be bound by CC licensing.



Willingness to participate, and purpose. Is it for fun or civic engagement?


Arguable IMO it could be argued for civic engagement and discourse and education. That’s the charter as I understand for NPR, I don’t see why a public social network couldn’t fall under that.

Misinformation on social media exists today, I don’t see why we couldn’t argue as a society that public discourse on the network couldn’t be perceived as a way to educate the public.

As far a infrastructure, just limit content type and posting limits (time gate posts on topics, or limit 1 post per day, etc.)

Companies would get public data to be trained since everything would be CC licensed. And a contract to be won for reserved services.




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