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mk  ·  3428 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Fred Wilson: The Decentral Authority

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.