Hi folks,

This is a bit off topic for the election-software list, but only a bit. At some point, someone needs to create a voting mechanism that implements many ranked and rated systems, but uses the API of a mainstream social network to filter out duplicate votes by allowing only one vote per account (perhaps limiting things further for social networks that don't mind it if someone sets up dozens or even hundreds of accounts on their system.

I think the multi-account per user could be solved by having a group that one's has to be part of, or something along those lines. Still, which API/protocol should we use?Should we focus our efforts on one of the big mainstream corporate networks like Twitter's or Facebook's? Should we focus our efforts on the nascent AT:Protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT_Protocol? How about the relatively mature ActivityPub https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub?

Since Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerburg are going to be very special guests at Trump's second inauguration, there are many people abandoning Facebook. So, I'd like to share with y'all a wiki page that I'm building out (and would love some help with; just sign up for an account!). The page: https://myndmess.org/wiki/Facebook#Alternatives

What are y'all using to communicate with your respective families? What do you wish they'd migrate to?

Rob