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I honestly do not understand this fetish with decentralization, do you really want a social network filled with child pornography, violence and other shady stuf
by hungryhobo 6y ago
I honestly do not understand this fetish with decentralization, do you really want a social network filled with child pornography, violence and other shady stuff? Because that's what's gonna happen guaranteed. People are just animals without rules
- random_dork1 6y agoDecentralisation is best exemplified by email or http. Yes, they enable all kind of things, including bad ones. They behave like infrastructure, just like roads. I enjoy Mastodon because I can find the instance I like best and still be in touch with people from other instances. My instance blocks other instances that they don't like and publicly explains why. When I won't like it any more, I will take my data and move somewhere else without looks my contacts or anything. Once Nextcloud will have a decent implementation of Activity Pub, I will start my own instance just for myself and I will only see content that I want to see.
- CivBase 6y ago> do you really want a social network filled with child pornography, violence and other shady stuff? You have just described the world wide web. I may not want that stuff to exist, but I also certainly don't want the world wide web to not exist.
- hungryhobo 6y agoI mean you can try to share child pornography through your ISP's network and we can see what happens? Shady stuff are mostly shared through decentralized networks and its the centralized www that's preventing them. To me this decentralization fetish feels like people think government are stupid and inefficient so we should have no government at all
- feanaro 6y agoHow exactly is decentralisation related to the idea that there should be no governments? That said, governments are just organizations and very powerful organizations at that. Like any powerful organization, a government can become corrupt or tyrannical and start working against the populace. It is always a good idea to keep it in check so that its power cannot grow boundless.
- CivBase 6y agoAny reason why an ISP couldn't shut you down for sharing child porn on a decentralized social network?
- konjin 6y agoNothing if you encrypt it. So do we ban the internet or encryption?
- lazzlazzlazz 6y agoAll of that terrible stuff exists on the decentralized internet, yet through a combination of selecting the right platforms and right client software, I never have to see it. You don't want a centralized internet and trust someone else to control it for you. You want control over your connection to a decentralized internet.
- hungryhobo 6y agoThank you, that gives me a better understanding.
- swiley 6y agoModeration and decentralization are not mutually exclusive. Activity pub based platforms achieve both.
- selfishgene 6y agoWith "rules," people are just sheep grazing under the vigilant watch of surveillance capitalism. Decentralization + filters which are either trained by machine learning or appointed by the community that the forum serves (rather than the stockholders that the platform enriches) is what needs to replace Facebook, Parler, etc.
- selfishgene 6y agohttps://reasonandmeaning.com/2017/10/31/what-is-social-cooling/ https://reasonandmeaning.com/2017/10/31/what-is-social-cooli...
- lazyjones 6y agoDecentralization doesn't mean you get to see or even host the bad stuff. There could be filtering rules or moderation entities you could subscribe to (or even pay) to keep your view of the network clean.