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I think many people find comfort in the idea of a central authority that they can address with their grievances even if it is mostly futile. I saw a documentar
by jiggy2011 13y ago
I think many people find comfort in the idea of a central authority that they can address with their grievances even if it is mostly futile.
I saw a documentary on "cyber bullying" some years back and parents were calling for more oversight, more censorship and more monitoring "people shouldn't just be allowed to say mean things on facebook!".
A centralised facebook can at least ban members, block imposters , anonymous troll accounts and cooperate with law enforcement if necessary.
Under a federated model this becomes much more difficult, if anyone can run a node on the network then the 4chan nodes can connect to the nodes used by people to share their baby photos.
- andrewflnr 13y agoI've always envisioned an encrypted system where only people you've authorized can decrypt things you share, assuming you haven't let your keys leak. Users area defined by a key-pair. But I really hope people get used to the idea that you can't control where information goes once it's in the wild, otherwise the social Internet will be nothing but pain.