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I don't think the important question to ask here is if it can survive, it's how can it survive. These sort of tools should be in the commons anyway, just like s

I don't think the important question to ask here is if it can survive, it's how can it survive. These sort of tools should be in the commons anyway, just like social media. Monolithic social media is not sustainable and often times quite harmful because it optimizes for engagement. The Fediverse will deal with this one way or another, worst case everyone switches to whitelisting. I've been in favor of adding a limit - once you can remove by deleting a few lines of code of course - to the number of users an instance can hold. Purely for symbolism. It worked when Elasticsearch was added to Mastodon and a "viewable_by" property was added so you could only search for things you had engaged with.

api 8y ago
I totally agree. I'm not trying to poo-poo this stuff, just trying to ask some questions. I'm asking in part because I'm curious about what has been developed and what's being contemplated for the future. I think one promising avenue is to start doing our own work in AI / deep learning powered countermeasures against attacks. AI doesn't replace humans (yet?), but it does augment them. A citizen militia vs. an AI-augmented propaganda army would be toast unless the citizen militia is also leveraging the force multiplying power of AI. Given the agility of small actors at innovation, the citizen militia might actually end up with better AI than the PR flunkies and propaganda mills.