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I feel the same way and it might be we have a love hate relationship with these ideas because there is probably neither a perfect centralized or decentralized s

• dredmorbius 6y ago
  Largely agreed, which makes for accord but lousy debate ;-) In light of the monopoly-power-control dynamic, though, I see frames for analysing and room for thinking about how federated systems should be structured to avoid creating cryptic control loci. As an example, Mastodon (on which part of this discussion is occurring) saw a remarkably bad interactiion two hears ago when a set of griefers followed Wil Wheaton from Twitter and swamped Mastodon's feeble harassment and abuse detection-and-mitigation systems (they've been improved, I'm given to understand). Diaspora, where I'd posted this article, has a nagging (though unclear if growing or just persisting) issue with disinformation and propaganda dissemination. On the one hand, effects are pretty limited without algorithmic amplification. On the other, blocking, reporting, and content- or account-removal seem ...underpowered. The worse forms of abuse seem infrequent, though, which is a good sign.
  • Nowado 6y ago
    Experiments with building voting into normal usage (like 'choosing mods' mechanisms) seem to be addressing some of those issues, although not without costs.
    • dredmorbius 6y ago
      Sortition may beat voting in many contexts.
  • dredmorbius 6y ago
    s/hears/years/