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> How would it work with just a regular database? You'd set up another centralized honey pot that these psychopaths actively look for. > How would a blockchai

> How would it work with just a regular database? You'd set up another centralized honey pot that these psychopaths actively look for. > How would a blockchain make it better? Besides censorship protection, the platform could reward users to make itself better. Lots of things become possible when you have control over the reward system and don't just extract the value to the top. > What coalition of people will run the blockchain, and why would they be more trustworthy than whomever would run the database? This is the decentralized aspect. Whoever starts the project isn't necessarily more trustworthy. They might build that trust over time(or not). Either way the project doesn't live and die by them if successful.

arcticfox 9y ago
> Besides censorship protection I personally don't think that goes under "features" to be honest. Every uncensored social network is basically a cesspool.
avip 9y ago
"Any sufficiently uncensored user-content platform is indistinguishable from a porn site"
- whataretensors 9y ago
  A user can run a custom curator. Alternatively sites could be developed that give access to the network and do their own filtering. There are other choices besides authoritarian censorship, despite the popularity these days.
  - dragonwriter 9y ago
    > Alternatively sites could be developed that give access to the network and do their own filtering. ...and add their own content, which is only viewable from that site and not elsewhere on the network. And the most popular one of those will eventually just displace the decentralized network.
    - whataretensors 9y ago
      There would be competitive features and low barrier of entry since the data isn't warehoused by one entity. Sure a platform could add their own features off-chain. But the user would not be rewarded by the protocol for such divergences.
- dragonwriter 9y ago
  And if it's completely uncensored (e.g., the Bitcoin blockchain), that's child porn. The ability to do logical deletes that will be honored by the main consumer client isn't really sufficient to deal with the problem.

arcticfox 9y ago

> Besides censorship protection I personally don't think that goes under "features" to be honest. Every uncensored social network is basically a cesspool.

avip 9y ago

"Any sufficiently uncensored user-content platform is indistinguishable from a porn site"

whataretensors 9y ago
A user can run a custom curator. Alternatively sites could be developed that give access to the network and do their own filtering. There are other choices besides authoritarian censorship, despite the popularity these days.
- dragonwriter 9y ago
  > Alternatively sites could be developed that give access to the network and do their own filtering. ...and add their own content, which is only viewable from that site and not elsewhere on the network. And the most popular one of those will eventually just displace the decentralized network.
  - whataretensors 9y ago
    There would be competitive features and low barrier of entry since the data isn't warehoused by one entity. Sure a platform could add their own features off-chain. But the user would not be rewarded by the protocol for such divergences.
dragonwriter 9y ago
And if it's completely uncensored (e.g., the Bitcoin blockchain), that's child porn. The ability to do logical deletes that will be honored by the main consumer client isn't really sufficient to deal with the problem.