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I've heard about a lot of accounts being deleted or suspended over the last two weeks. Twitter does selective enforcement periodically where they'll run a scan
by bko 5y ago
I've heard about a lot of accounts being deleted or suspended over the last two weeks. Twitter does selective enforcement periodically where they'll run a scan and suspend or delete thousands of accounts. I imagine its related to the new CEO.
Traditional blockchains don't let you store a lot of data and obviously writing to the block chain is expensive. But is there a blockchain or maybe something else (ipfs?) that allows you to store data cheaply? In that case someone could develop what people originally hoped twitter would be: an protocol for short micro-blogs. Imagine someone that breaks the terms of Twitter could migrate all their tweets easily to another provider, or another provider could just reference them. Twitter could still be a thing, essentially a curation service, feed algorithm, moderation service, etc. But your data wouldn't belong to them.
- gruez 5y ago>But is there a blockchain or maybe something else (ipfs?) that allows you to store data cheaply? self-backup to aws glacier? either that or be famous enough that someone from /r/datahoarder backs it up for you. >In that case someone could develop what people originally hoped twitter would be: an protocol for short micro-blogs sounds like the fediverse.
- rgallagher27 5y agoAnd what about all the legitimate use cases for censorship/banning? What happens when the chain / ipfs is flooded with immutable CP? Anti-semitic content? Anti-Vaxx disinformation? Revenge-porn? Pii leaks?
- Moodles 5y agoSo close. One day we will think of a use for blockchain besides cryptocurrency. Or not.
- bko 5y agoImages/video are trickier since there's strict liability around those in most countries. So that should continue to live on private hosting services. Other bad stuff could exist as it does today on the internet. You can find all this stuff online by just searching google for the most part. Most people don't want to interact with that stuff, so they would go on curated content providers like twitter that do active filtering of those things.