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

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post #33

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So everyone needs to explicitly block cheese pizza for themselves just so a few perverts can share that stuff in the name of "free speech"?

No, everyone needs to explicitly "choose some list of moderators whose decisions you trust, and subscribe to their block lists"

isn't that what matrix is doing with their decentralized moderation?

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

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I will never use any Facebook product again after they completely bricked my oculus devices with the forced sign in.

VR goggles? Dude. How about the part where they tried to consign your grandchildren to a dystopian technocratic panopticon? https://hackernoon.com/on-the-infestation-of-small-souled-bu...

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

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> Building a decentralized network could also give Meta the opportunity for its new app to interoperate with other social products — a previously unheard-of gesture from a company known for building some of the most lucrative walled gardens in the industry’s history.

It's clear to me that this person forgot everything what earlier Facebook was doing like Facebook Platform https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Platform and Facebook Chat via Jabber/XMPP https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/110/

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

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post #32

> "Twitter’s decline..." Is Twitter in decline? According to what measure? I use Twitter as a read-only way to follow a handful of interesting people in tech, science, journalism etc. All of them, regardless of their political leaning, are still posting the same as ever. If anything I see more activity than before.

I've been using Twitter for the last 10 years in write-only mode and have even given up that a couple of month ago.

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

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post #37

> 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…

Just because over 10 million Americans believe that Tom Hanks violates, kills, and eats children - a widely held belief - does not mean that a private company can't tell those people to go suck a bug. A private company does moderation and it's the end of the world. Ron DeSantis bans books and he is just "anti-woke". The actual government.

It’s a bit amusing that your comment is making fun of Americans for widely holding an untrue belief, and then you conveniently make an example of yourself doing the exact same thing. I usually find it’s about three comments deep that Americans find a way to start taking potshots at the other team whenever the concepts of “censorship” or “freedoms” arise. Canadians and Europeans are usually able to discuss these things without referencing Trump or Biden or Clinton or whomever is on the American mind these days. It’s as if one can’t imagine a world where censorship is anything but a tool the evil Red/Blue team will use to steal the next election.

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

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post #32

> "Twitter’s decline..." Is Twitter in decline? According to what measure? I use Twitter as a read-only way to follow a handful of interesting people in tech, science, journalism etc. All of them, regardless of their political leaning, are still posting the same as ever. If anything I see more activity than before.

As someone who uses it but isn’t a fan of it, it’s exactly the same as it’s always been.

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

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post #48

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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 down, but public school is where the parent matters the least and we end up in perpetual holy wars like this.

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