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fighting the network effect is probably not too hard from a technical perspective since aggregators are, by nature, fully public. Anyone who makes their own aggregator can just aggregate posts from the existing aggregators, and any time a post is submitted to it but not on the aggregators it's leeching from, it can submit that post to the other aggregators
leeching submissions to other aggregators may be a dick move, but call your aggregator a "meta aggregator" or "federated aggregator" and perhaps the icky feeling will be reduced :)
Jan 06 · 5 months ago
@wasolili Note that Cosmos is just that: it aggregates links from various other aggregators and Gemini hosting platforms. I apply a manual editorial policy on it, though, instead of accepting whatever links it may find. Personally I don't feel it's icky at all, as it provides its own additional value of threading linked posts together.
I fear the network effect is too much about psychology and group dynamics to be overcome with technology, though. We've seen how social networks evolve on the Big Web...
A recent trouble in Antenna shows the need for more than one platform for whatever: sharing posts, forums, engines... Because yes, the owner of a platform has every right to disallow content that she or he or hän doesn't want there. However, there should be alternatives to protect freedom of speech and, also, to relief the pressure from platform owners so they can also exercise their own rights
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