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> 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 a

• cazum 11y ago
  I haven't used gnusocial, but I'd imagine they have a ignore/block-user feature.
  • st3v3r 11y ago
    But 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 ago
    You 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 ago
  I 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 ago
    whoops, I meant neyer/respect not neyer/dewdrop