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Re: Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network

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Post by exitb »

salmonellaeater wrote: post #31

> Individual servers would let different groups set their own community standards, though likely with a “floor” of rules set by Meta, in a fashion similar to how Reddit’s individual communities work. This is not praise. Reddit bans people for expressing widely held beliefs. Subreddit mods are required to enforce the site-wide rules regardless of the subreddit's own preferences. As another commenter put it [1], the pr…

That's roughly how Mastodon works. Each instance is responsible for moderation of their own users. If an instance does not meet arbitrary standards of moderation, other instances may choose not to federate with them, but nothing can stop willing instances from federating.

Re: Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network

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Post by goodpoint »

traviswt wrote: post #60
papito wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So, you have no problem, I assume, with the "woke" governors banning or revising classic children's books to remove anything offensive? Right? You know, to prevent "government employees and licensed child educators from providing certain books to children, in the context of government mandated education." I'll wait.

This seems like a great case against public education, since the mechanism to address this "whoever is in power decides" situation is of course competition and free choice. Indoctrination of children is just natural a natural consequence of everyone having their biases. Parents are the ones who should choose, because that is how we have diversity. Home schooling gives parents the most choice, private school a step do…

> Indoctrination of children is just natural a natural consequence of everyone having their biases

Not for a second. There is such thing as education.

Re: Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network

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Post by mym1990 »

What if, and hear me out: we ditch the idea of a better replacement social network and just ditch the concept in general? Let’s go back to not being bombarded by ads every 3rd post, to not getting lost in massive echo chambers, to not doom scrolling for 20-40% of our waking hours, being locked into mega platforms, etc... Is the proposition of “being more connected” really worth the downsides?

Re: Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network

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Post by zpeti »

matthewdgreen wrote: post #79
zpeti wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly, and its actually generally blue states that have centralised education, and places like florida that allow chartered schools and similar ones. So if you want to setup a private school in florida with LGBTQ+ education, I'm pretty sure you can just do that.

Not if you want to receive school voucher funds.

OK, and? It's still a free market. If people want schools with LGBTQ+ education, set one up, and do it. You can.

Why should local government help? Especially if that local government was specifically elected to not support issues like this?

Re: Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network

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Post by goodpoint »

Clubber wrote: post #67
1270018080 wrote: post #9

"Decentralized" has become a red flag term for businesses. It's been corrupted by crypto scams. There needs to be a new word.

Pier to pier is what we always called it, or shortly, P2P. It's how the internet was designed. Now, all piers are equal, but some piers are more equal than others. On a side note, the Napster model was almost perfect, its downfall was centralized indexing. I wonder if a blockchain could be used for distributed indexing using the same P2P communication model of Napster.

> Pier to pier is what we always called it

Not quite.

Re: Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network

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Post by foul »

usrbinbash wrote: post #17

> The app is codenamed P92 and will allow users to log in through their existing Instagram credentials So if it relies on the servers of one centralized entity for authentication, how exactly is this thing "decentralized"?

In the best case it will speak ActivityPub as to embrace, extend and extinguish. Because all this effort is, imho obviously, an EEE tactic.

Re: Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network

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Post by Zardoz84 »

exitb wrote: post #81
salmonellaeater wrote: post #31

> Individual servers would let different groups set their own community standards, though likely with a “floor” of rules set by Meta, in a fashion similar to how Reddit’s individual communities work. This is not praise. Reddit bans people for expressing widely held beliefs. Subreddit mods are required to enforce the site-wide rules regardless of the subreddit's own preferences. As another commenter put it [1], the pr…

That's roughly how Mastodon works. Each instance is responsible for moderation of their own users. If an instance does not meet arbitrary standards of moderation, other instances may choose not to federate with them, but nothing can stop willing instances from federating.

And allow us to kick out any fascist guy and/or instance from the federated network.

Re: Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network

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Post by jollofricepeas »

mym1990 wrote: post #83

What if, and hear me out: we ditch the idea of a better replacement social network and just ditch the concept in general? Let’s go back to not being bombarded by ads every 3rd post, to not getting lost in massive echo chambers, to not doom scrolling for 20-40% of our waking hours, being locked into mega platforms, etc... Is the proposition of “being more connected” really worth the downsides?

Social networks are hotels, right.

- First they are new and cool. The young, hip and rich stay often.

- New becomes old. Shoddy carpet, old fixtures, bad music in the lobby but older people stay until they die.

- New hotels sprout up with cool carpet, music and fixtures. The cycle repeats.

The only way we can ditch them is to ban them and then they’ll go underground :(

What is dead may never die.

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