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What do you mean by "value proposition"? It is free software, not a business opportunity. Not everything is about selling and money. I read about the project j
by pekk 11y ago
What do you mean by "value proposition"? It is free software, not a business opportunity. Not everything is about selling and money.
I read about the project just to answer your question, which you could have answered for yourself by reading.
You can run your own instance. The source is open, which means it is publicly auditable, you can contribute to it, you can fork it. It is federated. There is not one single global point of failure, which has other implications regarding things like censorship. You are not beholden to a proprietary, profit-motivated service which can do whatever it wants with your data or with the service. It is an attempt to move away from walled gardens.
If you distrust US-based services, you can use an instance which is based in Europe or wherever.
If you don't get it, you don't get it.
- Mithaldu 11y agoNot all values are monetary.
- DasIch 11y ago> There is not one single global point of failure, which has other implications regarding things like censorship. In other words it doesn't just ignore abuse and harrassment one of the biggest problems - maybe the biggest problem - twitter has a communications platform, it practically encourages it.
- cazum 11y agoI haven't used gnusocial, but I'd imagine they have a ignore/block-user feature.
- st3v3r 11y agoBut as Twitter has shown us, that's pretty worthless, as the cost to creating a new account to get around it is pretty much zero.
- DasIch 11y agoYou don't want to ignore all abuse and harrassment as it may include death threats and so forth. This makes ignore as a feature unusuable to anyone who actually deals with abuse or harrassment. It's a stupid feature people who don't care about this topic implement to be able to pretend they've done something. Blocking only works if the cost of creating new accounts is high enough to turn off harrassers. That's almost never the case unless you're running an MMORPG or something.
- drdeca 11y agoI expect there are ways to make something both resistant to harassment and resistant to censorship. Like, suppose a network was designed with those as its primary 2 goals. I don't think that would be totally unachievable. DewDrop (I might have gotten the name mixed up with another thing by neyer) and related things seem not inconsistent with decentralized things, and they seem like they could be used for combating harassment. (e.g. by setting a minimum relative reputation for people sending one things in order to see the things, people who were more likely to be targeted could set a higher minimum, while people who no one knew could set a minimum of 0, or even something slightly negative. Someone who wanted to see everything sent to them could set it to the minimum allowed number.) (the relative reputation is constructed based on the individual, and does not rely on an authority thing to work).
- drdeca 11y agowhoops, I meant neyer/respect not neyer/dewdrop