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Re:Towards a world without Facebook by whataretensors on Sunday March 25, 2018 @05:03PM (#16674595)
A user can run a custom curator. Alternatively sites could be developed that give access to the network and do their own filtering.

There are other choices besides authoritarian censorship, despite the popularity these days.

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Re:Towards a world without Facebook by dragonwriter on Monday March 26, 2018 @02:06AM (#16676968)
> Alternatively sites could be developed that give access to the network and do their own filtering.

...and add their own content, which is only viewable from that site and not elsewhere on the network. And the most popular one of those will eventually just displace the decentralized network.

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Re:Towards a world without Facebook by whataretensors on Monday March 26, 2018 @12:39PM (#16680185)
There would be competitive features and low barrier of entry since the data isn't warehoused by one entity.

Sure a platform could add their own features off-chain. But the user would not be rewarded by the protocol for such divergences.

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