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Does anything like this exist? A feed of unfiltered, unmoderated content + conversations, fed to a multitude of websites, each with its own moderation filters a
by MetaWhirledPeas 3y ago
Does anything like this exist? A feed of unfiltered, unmoderated content + conversations, fed to a multitude of websites, each with its own moderation filters and content standards. All submissions go to the to the shared feed, but hit moderation and content filters on the website before being displayed. So you can have a reddit-like website with a lot of good content, but if it ever goes south people can quickly flock to a peer.*
Is this how Mastodon and Nostr expect things to work? If so, are there any "winning" websites where most Mastodon and Nostr users congregate?
For most users the back end philosophy is only there to serve the end result. For any given post or comment you need a simple website link you can share with friends; no thinking required.
*Bonus: if people feel like their views are being improperly censored they can, again, jump to a peer with different filtering standards.
- kingnothing 3y agoRSS was basically this. Usenet was good as well.
- polytely 3y agoMastodon could work like that if you would federate with every instance, except that there are a sizable amount of instances that cut ties with instances that don't do moderation because they tend to be filled with the most unpleasant people you don't want to interact with. I'm in a small-ish instance with a great admin/mod team who's values align with mine and who judiciously eject people with bad vibes. (mostly nazi's and transphobes) I feel no need to share a social network with people who hate my friends for who they are so the whole proposition of uncensored content doesn't appeal to me at all.
- paxys 3y agoThe problem with every such design is that the infrastructure layer takes up close to 100% of the development effort, hosting costs, maintenance costs and content liability while getting nothing in return. So why would anyone set up such a service?
- MetaWhirledPeas 3y agoVery good question. Although from descriptions I've heard of Nostr, isn't that how relays work? Unfiltered content (and thus, potential liability) flowing through peoples' relays? If so then I guess we have Nostr as our guinea pig.