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Can you name me a single government regulation that would prevent a decentralized twitter from forming? Let's not just hand-wave our blame for the government.
by atonse 8y ago
Can you name me a single government regulation that would prevent a decentralized twitter from forming?
Let's not just hand-wave our blame for the government.
There have been many, many, many attempts to create a more open, decentralized version of Twitter, Facebook, and various Blogs. But they've all failed because there just simply wasn't enough incentive for people to leave these popular sites to go to a random site, for a value proposition that most don't really care to understand (open and federated vs run by one company)
- dsfasfsdfff 8y agoI live in Germany. Here, for example, the government threatens to fine companies who don't censor "hate speech" - with no way to appeal and no exact definitions. So even if you just operate your own node, you might be liable for fines if you don't censor at the whim of the government. Maybe a decentralized Twitter, with some kind of magic anonymization that is usable for normal people, could work around that. But then I guess decentralized approaches never achieved a good performance so far? A decentralized alternative seems like the only hope, but it might be very difficult or impossible to implement.