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Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives?
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#232I am the admin of both a Mastodon Instance( https://zee.li ), and a Peertube Instance( https://tube.zee.li ), both of which are ActivityPub based federated instances. While individual nodes are not decentralized the federated network as a whole is. It is ultimately up to you to choose a well-federated, fast, and reliable instance that meets your criteria for information freedom and user protections. You can find an u…
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Re: Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives?
#233I am the admin of both a Mastodon Instance( https://zee.li ), and a Peertube Instance( https://tube.zee.li ), both of which are ActivityPub based federated instances. While individual nodes are not decentralized the federated network as a whole is. It is ultimately up to you to choose a well-federated, fast, and reliable instance that meets your criteria for information freedom and user protections. You can find an u…
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#234Every time I go looking for one of these open alternatives it’s filled with fringe conspiracy theorists, actual racists, etc. Example is LBRY. Bryan Lunduke says he’s switching off YouTube for LBRY, so I go there to check it out. Top trending video is some white supremacist thing why I shouldn’t forget my ancestry. Search for “how to repair furnace”, second result is video how Epstein is alive. Even Lunduke is taking…
https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/01/neutral-vs-conservativ...
>The moral of the story is: if you’re against witch-hunts, and you promise to found your own little utopian community where witch-hunts will never happen, your new society will end up consisting of approximately three principled civil libertarians and seven zillion witches. It will be a terrible place to live even if witch-hunts are genuinely wrong.
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>The equilibrium is basically what we see now. The neutral gatekeeper institutions lean very liberal, though with a minority of conservative elites who are good at keeping their heads down and too mainstream/prestigious to settle for anything less. The ghettos contain a combination of seven zillion witches and a few decent conservatives who are increasingly uncomfortable but know there’s no place for them in the mainstream.
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#236Forget Twitter alternatives. How about a social network that mirrors real world social interactions? Only adding people you actually know. Keeping conversations private. Encryption to prevent censorship. What is the social media equivalent of signal?
Re: Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives?
#237I am the admin of both a Mastodon Instance( https://zee.li ), and a Peertube Instance( https://tube.zee.li ), both of which are ActivityPub based federated instances. While individual nodes are not decentralized the federated network as a whole is. It is ultimately up to you to choose a well-federated, fast, and reliable instance that meets your criteria for information freedom and user protections. You can find an u…
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#239Earlier quoted context omitted.
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