Decentralizing Social Media: How Libraries Can Destroy Facebook

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Decentralizing Social Media: How Libraries Can Destroy Facebook (PPTX)

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Fediverse links to most things “federated” in social media
– https://fediverse.party/

https://moodle.com/news/moodlenet-what-is-a-federated-social-network/

News Stories

Something Weird Is Happening on Facebook

In 2019, Almost All of Facebook’s Top Christian Pages Were Run By Foreign Troll Farms

Twitter wants to develop an open, decentralized, federated social media standard…and then join it

Next Steps?

Organizations we might tap to help get some momentum include:

• • https://www.libraryfutures.net/
  • https://dp.la/
  • https://www.eff.org/
  • https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/
  • https://www.imls.gov/
  • https://www.ala.org/

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