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Relevant Tweet: >Mastodon is proving to be a system so censorship resistant even its creators can't censor it. https://twitter.com/peterktodd/status/1147772867
by olah_1 7y ago
Relevant Tweet:
>Mastodon is proving to be a system so censorship resistant even its creators can't censor it.
https://twitter.com/peterktodd/status/1147772867783929856 https://twitter.com/peterktodd/status/1147772867783929856
It seems like federation is actually more censorship resistant in some ways than fully distributed p2p systems. Because an ISP could block ports and things required for p2p connections, right?
- Funes- 7y agoWouldn't the authorities just keep blocking instances (i. e., servers)? I may be wrong, but I don't think a federated platform is censorship-resistant in any meaningful way.
- olah_1 7y agoI suppose so... I really don't know. How do they find them when they're just over regular HTTP? Seems like it would be easier to find p2p traffic. But I don't know.
- luckylion 7y agoIf each instance is only used by a small number of users, it might not easily be identified, since the exchange of the platforms wouldn't be visible to Turkey's censors. I don't think this really helps as a means of suppressing information. Unless you block everything, the information will get out and once it's out of the region, you no longer have control. I believe it's mostly about soldiers carrying their cellphones around, posting on facebook when they are idle etc, and you don't want troop movements and staging grounds to be quite that public. "Hey guys, please no Facebook" doesn't work at a large scale, blocking those sites is much easier.
- thedaemon 7y agoCan you post the relevant Toot instead? I think using a twitter link for mastodon is going against mastodon user philosophy.
- olah_1 7y agoIt's a tweet though...