Wikipedia co-founder calls for 'social media strike'
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Larry Sanger , one of Wikipedia's co-founders, is calling for a ' social media strike ' on 4 and 5 July 2019 that does not use any social media . According to Sanger, the purpose of the strike is to 'develop and promote the development of distributed social media .'
Social Media Strike!-Larry Sanger Blog
https://larrysanger.org/20019/06/social-media-strike/
Sanger says, is Wikipedia's predecessor Nupedia in a person who participated in the launch of Wikipedia from the establishment of the, one of Wikipedia's co-founder. Mr. Sanger has been away from the operation of Wikipedia around 2003, and is promoting the online encyclopedia project ' Citizendium ', which incorporates a peer review system under a real name system.
Unlike the systems run by a single company, such as Twitter and Facebook, “distributed social media” that Sanger seeks is managed by multiple operators including users. In recent years, mastodon has become a topic of discussion as a 'distributed microblogging alternative to Twitter.'
According to Sanger, social media strike is an act that does not use any social media. However, you only have to use the hashtag '#SocialMediaStrike' to make a strike declaration around you, or present a copy of the signed digital independence declaration and urge others to join the strike. It has been with.
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Mr. Sanger urges individual engineers to agree and participate in the movement, saying, “A volunteer may create a bot that automatically posts a notice of strike and a copy of the digital independence declaration to social media,” I would like you to help develop the source distributed social media project. '
Sanger says, 'We require huge technology companies to control their own data, privacy, and user experience on their own, by giving them collective power,' I said, 'I'm trying to strike this strike. I want to be completely decentralized, I don't want to focus on my site larrysanger.org, I want everyone to start doing the same thing on my blog. '
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