Wikipedia co-founder calls for decentralizing social media

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The Post Millennial

Matthew Miller

March 4, 2021

Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger put forth a proposal to decentralize the social media industry.

Sanger left Wikipedia more than 20 years ago due to a disagreement with the direction the site was going, according to the Epoch Times. He is now developing technical standards that would bust Big Tech's bloated stature and give more control to users, including better privacy protection and less censorship of speech.

"What needs to exist is a system that just makes it really easy for the average user to push out their social media content from a place that they own, like a blog, and then make it available on all these different platforms so it doesn’t matter which platform you use," Sanger told The Epoch Times.

Sanger says that alternative social media platforms such as Gab, Minds.com, and Parler are not quite a definitive solution.

"They are alternatives, but they themselves still involve the platform owning your data. … They don’t really constitute a solution to the problem that Twitter and Facebook and the rest give us," he said.

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