> perhaps it's popularity is because of the censorship, not in spite of it. I'd argue that content curation is usually seen as a plus, and censorship is a form

> perhaps it's popularity is because of the censorship, not in spite of it. I'd argue that content curation is usually seen as a plus, and censorship is a form of curation. What's missing in the equation is a distributed/federated reputation system, which I know Matrix gave a lot of thoughts about without finding an answer, and which twitter famously just launched a working group on. Reputation such as the karma and up/down votes we get here are one of the ways to approach curation (tagging like #twitter does can be part of another approach).