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Because Eurosky can ban you.
by lez 1mo ago
Because Eurosky can ban you.
- pjc50 1mo agoThe ability to ban people, and the choice of who is banned, is actually the defining feature of social networks.
- iamnothere 1mo agoI actually agree with you. Nostr is a new, unique technology, akin to a simpler XMPP with social features already baked in at an early stage. It’s not a messenger or a social network, yet it includes features from both. Extensible, resilient communications without the threat of a central third party silencing you is quite appealing.
- maelito 1mo agoWell of course they can. Elon Musk should have been banned for hate speed and racism, for instance.
- Yizahi 1mo agoDang can ban you, or me, or anyone. Doesn't make HN a bad forum. On the contrary, HN's moderation quality is widely praised and appreciated. Now imagine if it was free for all anarcho-libertarian forum. Or as another example a mastodon, where decentralization is touted as a huge benefit, but in practice it is a collection of extremely strict centralized islands, where a ban can lead to one's identity account forever lost, but unlike on HN, there is no public accountability to the instance mods there.
- inigyou 1mo agoMastodon is indeed a collection of small social networks with limited interoperability. Federated toots are second-class toots - you won't see all their replies. Think of how iMessage degrades when someone in the conversation isn't using it.