> Federated and decentralized platforms are very vulnerable in ways that silos are not, and this has to be thought about. It's funny because current FLOSS dece

> Federated and decentralized platforms are very vulnerable in ways that silos are not, and this has to be thought about. It's funny because current FLOSS decentralized platforms are so horrendously designed, hopelessly unscalable, and obviously unmaintainable that the silos like Facebook and Twitter should be decades ahead in their ability to eradicate nation-state trolls and sock puppets. Yet look at the recent NY Times article on Facebook-- their Republican lobbyist said they couldn't publicly release the results of their 2016 election investigation because his own mother had friended one of the Russian trolls revealed by their chief security officer. And we only know any of this because of leaks. And that's apparently after their security officer ignored the board and legal's advice to stop investigating! So right now you've got two choices: 1. silos with a business model that prevents effective defense of users from the attacks you describe. 2. poorly designed/conceived decentralized FLOSS thingies that will probably fail in ways similar to Debian's openssl RNG/valgrind debacle. Debian eventually fixed that bug. How do you predict Twitter/Facebook will fix their business models?