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Federation is the only viable choice unless you want to submit to a central power. If you want strong safety, you shouldn't be broadcasting publicly into the ae
by feanaro 3y ago
Federation is the only viable choice unless you want to submit to a central power. If you want strong safety, you shouldn't be broadcasting publicly into the aether.
- eli 3y agoRight I’m saying I don’t particularly care about the governance structure of the protocol underlying my social media network. A centralized network run by a nonprofit or a b-corp and a relatively open API sounds great to me. User safety is a dealbreaker though. Pretty sure I’m not alone.
- KerrAvon 3y agoWhat nonprofit do you trust to run such a thing? When their employees receive targeted harassment from political vigilantes, what do you think is going to happen? When the nonprofit board is stacked with Musk or Trump acolytes, what do you think is going to happen? Media organizations are hugely vulnerable targets and they — nonprofit or commercial — are not proving resilient to outside pressure and influence. Decentralization is the only sustainable way forward if you want diversity in social media.
- eli 3y agoPolitical vigilantes? Decentralization cannot possibly increase diversity if it doesn't provide strong user safety measures. And decentralization makes that infamously hard problem much harder. I think you would end up compromising on one or the other.