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Begging your pardon, but how is a decentralized social network supposed to be healthier than a centralized one? Isn’t it still going to be full of the same gar
by matte_black 8y ago
Begging your pardon, but how is a decentralized social network supposed to be healthier than a centralized one?
Isn’t it still going to be full of the same garbage?
Isn’t this like quitting cigarettes then getting vaped?
- kuroguro 8y agoIsn't vaping way healthier, less smelly and less of a bother to the people around you? Seems like a decent upgrade.
- matte_black 8y agoHow does that analogy fit back into decentralized social networks?
- kuroguro 8y agoI was trying to say that it's a bad analogy. It seems to contradict what you said earlier.
- matte_black 8y agoI think vaping has been shown to be just as bad for you if not worse.
- kuroguro 8y agoFair enough.
- fenwick67 8y agoIt's very hard to be more unhealthy than cigarettes.
- matte_black 8y agoAnd yet vaping rose to the challenge.
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- chrisco255 8y agoOwning your data would mean that you as a user could opt into the social graphs that you want to be a part of, and pull that data out whenever you like. It would also mean that competitors could build more privacy-focused alternatives, perhaps a stripped down social media experience that doesn't allow sharing of articles for example. Maybe your friends still like to share memes, and they opt into the full DecentraFacebook edition but you don't want to see that crap, so you opt in to DecentraFacebook: Meme Free edition. You're still able to see friends 'direct posts'. No auto-play videos, no ads, etc.
- matte_black 8y agoWouldn’t this mean a better, and thus more addicting and time wasting, social network? Also, how could you really pull out data? If you put data out there and I make a copy of it and decide to keep it for all time how are you going to pull it back?
- chrisco255 8y agoI think there would be competing ones out there. I don't think "better" necessarily means it wastes more time. But sure, once you've given someone access to information, you can't make them forget it. Except through legislation (cough...GDPR...). You could revoke their access rights and they could no longer receive updates regarding your social graph.