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If you need admin tools, you need authority. The best way to design products is if they are not centralized or distributed but instead decentralized. This is i
by bullen 4y ago
If you need admin tools, you need authority. The best way to design products is if they are not centralized or distributed but instead decentralized.
This is incredibly hard to do, and nearly impossible to scale, but we need to go there.
In the short term one can look at Mastodon, which decentralizes the authority. It's messy but it sort of works.
- simiones 4y agoMastodon still needs (and offers) admin tools, for each server. Decentralization does nothing to remove the need for admin tools.
- bullen 4y agoYou are right, but I never said Mastodon was without authority, it's decentralized and authorative at the same time. To be able to remove the admin in Mastodon we would need to change laws since nobody would host a server that they cannot delete illegal content from. Thinking about these things opens doors to understanding the absurdity of our current society. In the end: to think that you can control anything is an illusion of energy abundance, and since we are running out of coal, oil and gas; my intuition tells me authority is going to dwindle slowly, then fast and finally all at once. Thus, my conclusion is: don't build admin interfaces. :D Adding to this the source-available economy that is the last step in our modern stack, needs user generated/hosted/owned content. So I think moderation tools needs to be less energy intense than manual. My only solution so far is pride/shame, like hn; so you attach a pseudonym to things: after all that is how communities have worked since we started naming people.