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Ethan J. A. Schoonover

We need FEMA for social media.

And by “FEMA” I mean structured, actionable plans for when social media disasters strike. What-if scenarios that allow us to recover without losing everything.

(And by disasters, I mean the present oligarchy.)
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Example What-ifs:

What-if the fall of net neutrality makes accessing distributed social media harder?
What-if a billionaire tries to buy out bluesky or a major mastodon instance?
What-if a primary distributed social media domain is seized?
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Example How-tos in the event of those what-ifs:

How-to maintain your existing social graph
How-to migrate your identity
etc.
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I do emergency disaster response volunteer work & we spend a lot of time thinking about how to educate people and prepare for disaster on multiple levels: personal level, family level, community level, municipal infrastructure level.

We need to do this for social media as well.
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@ethanschoonover some of these could be handled with distrubuted apps based on something like @VeilidNetwork other parts could be over tor and networks like #reticulumnetwork offline services over mesh. But yeah a good clear framework would help if nothing else for planning deployments.

@ethanschoonover ……… how about funding (non-religious) public schools that teach critical thinking skills? #seperationofchurchandstate