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comment by kgb_operative
kgb_operative  ·  3429 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Fred Wilson: The Decentral Authority

    The interesting thing about an entirely decentralized media platform is that you can have clients that choose to curate, police, and censor and clients that choose not to. Twitter, as originally architected, could have headed down this path. But for many reasons, reasons I supported to be clear, it chose not to.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like this is the model that hubski is based on, where each of our feeds is curated and censored as much or as little as we choose it to be.





mk  ·  3428 days ago  ·  link  ·  

In the sense that we use user-based moderation, yes. However, Wilson is talking about a service that has no central server(s), and as such, there would be no control whatsoever about what kind of content was posted in the global feed. That is, child porn and other content that most centralized services would not host would be part of the aggregate data in such a service. While most users would opt to filter such content out of their own view, their client would contribute to the hosting of it.

akkartik  ·  3428 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My reading was that it would be up to clients to decide whether to contribute to the hosting of it.

mk  ·  3428 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Do you think that would be possible? I assumed the data would be encrypted and the hosting agnostic.

akkartik  ·  3428 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hmm, hadn't considered that. The OP never mentioned encryption. Immediate reaction: it would be hard to have privacy in a decentralized setup. You have to choose one or the other.

mk  ·  3428 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Have you read this blog post by Ryan Charles? He was working on this at Reddit for a short time.

I am very interested in this.