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I do get the value in all this decentralised social media stuff, but people have demonstrated time and again our ability to be disgusting. How do these platfor

I do get the value in all this decentralised social media stuff, but people have demonstrated time and again our ability to be disgusting. How do these platforms handle communities that pop up that actively plan for say the eradication of certain religious groups?

tadfisher 3y ago
How does the Apache web server plan for such communities? How does PhpBB, or PostgresQL? The software is apolitical. Enabling speech always comes with enabling shitty speech, and that's a problem with humanity, not the tools enabling speech.
quickthrower2 3y ago
For comparison, how does tcp/ip/http handle that? Anyone can set up a forum and host it. You are relying as always on points of centralisation, like domain names and hosting companies as a way to take down illegal content. If it is illegal enough, like CP, terror etc. police will cooperate internationally and infiltrate it. FBI has seized so many BTC it isn’t funny and it doesn’t get more decentralised than that.
pseudocomposer 3y ago
So, as others are saying, the point of this being a protocol and app is that I’m not trying to assert control over that. If someone wants to use my platform to run a racist cesspool, I absolutely encourage legislatures to stop them, and search engines to delist them. But I don’t really see a way to prevent it on my end as the creator of an open platform. That said, I did implement visibility and moderation as core features, in the hopes that good administrators will shut down any cesspool activity on their site, and social and legal measures can take the job of further enforcement.
- Incipient 3y ago
  For op, love the product/platform you're working on. Like a lot of us here, I tinker too. I appreciate the joy and hard work that goes into it. My question was more tangential/philosophical, and not something for you to fix of course.

tadfisher 3y ago

How does the Apache web server plan for such communities? How does PhpBB, or PostgresQL? The software is apolitical. Enabling speech always comes with enabling shitty speech, and that's a problem with humanity, not the tools enabling speech.

quickthrower2 3y ago

For comparison, how does tcp/ip/http handle that? Anyone can set up a forum and host it. You are relying as always on points of centralisation, like domain names and hosting companies as a way to take down illegal content. If it is illegal enough, like CP, terror etc. police will cooperate internationally and infiltrate it. FBI has seized so many BTC it isn’t funny and it doesn’t get more decentralised than that.

pseudocomposer 3y ago

So, as others are saying, the point of this being a protocol and app is that I’m not trying to assert control over that. If someone wants to use my platform to run a racist cesspool, I absolutely encourage legislatures to stop them, and search engines to delist them. But I don’t really see a way to prevent it on my end as the creator of an open platform. That said, I did implement visibility and moderation as core features, in the hopes that good administrators will shut down any cesspool activity on their site, and social and legal measures can take the job of further enforcement.

Incipient 3y ago
For op, love the product/platform you're working on. Like a lot of us here, I tinker too. I appreciate the joy and hard work that goes into it. My question was more tangential/philosophical, and not something for you to fix of course.