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Please Please Please offer some GOOD alternatives to Facebook. Now is the time to come together and replace Facebook with a free decentralised alternative. If

• satyrnein 6y ago
  Decentralization is usually pitched as a solution to "censorship". In this case, the complaint seems to be the reverse, that there was insufficient intervention against misinformation. So I'm not sure how decentralization applies here.
  • AgentME 6y ago
    I think that's a really good point to bring up. Decentralization solves some problems but it doesn't automatically make everything better. An interesting example relevant to this case would be Mastodon: it's an alternative to Twitter where many instances federate together, and instances are allowed to do their own moderation. Many instances have much more protective rules than Twitter and have smaller communities that their moderators are better able to integrate with.
    • pizzicato 6y ago
      To add on to Mastodon, Pleroma is another federated, decentralised platform with slightly different features as far as I'm aware. There's a whole ecosystem of decentralised alternatives out there, which you can check out at https://fediverse.party/ https://fediverse.party/ It's definitely not easy to get people to jump ship, but I've seen an influx of new users to the Mastodon instance I'm part of.
      • RMPR 6y ago
        Many of the people joining the instance I'm part of had troubles getting started (follow people, What's going on, ...) I ended up writing a blog post https://rmpr.github.io/Migrating-from-Twitter-to-Mastodon/ https://rmpr.github.io/Migrating-from-Twitter-to-Mastodon/