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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency One I learned about on HN. Prior to this I would

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency One I learned about on HN. Prior to this I would have thought this was a real tinfoil hat idea, but groups like this are actively online every day sowing unrest and it is working so well at destroying America. How can we combat it?

jijijijij 1y ago
Bring people together IRL. I think one possible technical solution would be inherent bandwidth, range and commercial exploitation limitations. E.g. I think in a LoRa mesh network, you find those naturally. RNodes and Reticulum come to mind: https://unsigned.io/ https://unsigned.io/ Basically, through these hardware/physics restrictions abuse and enshittification doesn't scale, but genuine information does, and social communication patterns and scope resembles human nature/biological legacy better than the global web. Artificial software limitations can be cheated always, like with GPS spoofing, VPNs and so on. I presume, you could build communities around people, whose fates are actually connected significantly. A "killer app" to start off, could be dating, or blackboards, get the cool kidz aboard by using it to exclusively advertise the next rave, etc.. It is hard to censor and will be used for illegal activities, too, but it won't enable anything that's not happening on messengers anyway.
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IAmGraydon 1y ago
We can combat it by passing laws that don't make it so easy to create 1,000 identities on every social platform. In the grand scheme, it's not even a very complex problem to solve. Our lawmakers, however, are completely asleep at the wheel and the owners of these platforms are happy to facilitate foreign disinformation campaigns for the traffic they create.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency One I learned about on HN. Prior to this I would

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jijijijij 1y ago
Bring people together IRL. I think one possible technical solution would be inherent bandwidth, range and commercial exploitation limitations. E.g. I think in a LoRa mesh network, you find those naturally. RNodes and Reticulum come to mind: https://unsigned.io/ https://unsigned.io/ Basically, through these hardware/physics restrictions abuse and enshittification doesn't scale, but genuine information does, and social communication patterns and scope resembles human nature/biological legacy better than the global web. Artificial software limitations can be cheated always, like with GPS spoofing, VPNs and so on. I presume, you could build communities around people, whose fates are actually connected significantly. A "killer app" to start off, could be dating, or blackboards, get the cool kidz aboard by using it to exclusively advertise the next rave, etc.. It is hard to censor and will be used for illegal activities, too, but it won't enable anything that's not happening on messengers anyway.
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IAmGraydon 1y ago
We can combat it by passing laws that don't make it so easy to create 1,000 identities on every social platform. In the grand scheme, it's not even a very complex problem to solve. Our lawmakers, however, are completely asleep at the wheel and the owners of these platforms are happy to facilitate foreign disinformation campaigns for the traffic they create.