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The future is self hosted private invite only communities of vetted real life humans, likely done in person.
by october8140 4mo ago
The future is self hosted private invite only communities of vetted real life humans, likely done in person.
- SV_BubbleTime 4mo agoAnd when you need longer reach than that? A “I vouch for this person” system?
- Pay08 4mo agoThat has largely worked for private trackers.
- shit_game 4mo agolobste.rs has a pretty decent system with a global invite tree, where users can provide access for other people. it comes with the benefit of creating an association graph of accounts that allows for swift moderation, and lets the userbase grow within a community of people likely to appreciate the culture.
- Gigachad 4mo agoThat's pretty much the present today. Tbh I'm fine with the public internet just dying off at this point and people going back to their local smaller scale groups.
- cindyllm 4mo ago[dead]
- mx7zysuj4xew 4mo agoI'd prefer the 2011/2012 era before mass moderation was possible and before people began policing for "toxicity". We still had the culture and vestiges of freedom of the old web, alongside with the network effect of millions of "normal" people joining in the conversation through their iphones
- iamnothere 4mo agoThat’s pre-SOPA, pre-Snowden, when the internet could still organize to fight (and win) political battles. There’s a reason the internet has become a battleground since then.
- tancop 4mo agono, its public federated social media running on at protocol. no big tech control, no crypto bullshit like nostr, no way for bad admins to delete your posts like mastodon (they can only ban you from their own server). you can build a web of trust or vetting system on top of that like what tangled is doing for code.