Thanks a lot for sharing your thoughts, really appreciate it. Much of what you wrote resonates with me. Especially:

> The only way I know of to truly live up to these 3 principles is a free and open protocol for social media, that is not owned by a single company or group of companies, and is resilient to corporate and government influence.

and

> This isn’t about a “decentralized Twitter.” This is a focused and urgent push for a foundational core technology standard to make social media a native part of the internet.

I'd like to draw your attention to the Social Profile Exchange Protocol (spxp.org). It's an interesting protocol for a open and decentralized social network, that allows users to have 100% control over their content. The idea is actually simple, up to a point it's surprising that no one else has thought of it yet:

* Basically, SPXP leverages existing internet protocols, technology and infrastructure
* Because of that, there are many similarities to how a website works today. Here are some examples:
	* It’s based on an HTTP client server infrastructure
	* The servers host SPXP profiles and provide them to the public
	* The clients (e.g. a mobile app) request content from and publish content to a server
	* There can be many different client and server implementations and solutions
* Because of this, SPXP offers unique features. A profile owner…
	* … has 100% control over their content (like a website owner has 100% control over their website)
	* … does not need to sign the terms of service of a single, centralized, commercial, social network platform
	* … can (at a later point in time) choose form a set of many different hosting solutions/offerings
	* … can choose to run their own server to host their profile
	* … can migrate their profile from one server to another
* Additionally, SPXP is designed with privacy in mind and allows implementations to feature the following:
	* Message authenticity (profile identification and protection against man in the middle attacks)
	* Send messages to everyone or a set of recipients (“group”)
	* Message encryption for groups (e2e encryption, no forward secrecy)

The HeyFolks app (heyfolks.app) implements the protocol and spxp.space allows to host profiles. I’d love to hear your feedback on SPXP. You can reach me at info @ spxp.org, and connect with my personal profile here (I don’t post a lot though) https://heyfolks.app/profile?uri=https://spxp.space/mwiesen&pkid=OqHDO7e4IWwVxSQH&pkx=AEUab1sVV1ZkzFlnn_Sw-p3TRExIc-QRNVQNh8NGK2o

Thanks!