Maybe we shouldn't want a fully decentralized web

Re:Maybe we shouldn't want a fully decentralized web by alexisread on Saturday December 05, 2020 @05:11AM (#25313283)

Rather than censoring people, we could take the approach that our worldview is robust enough to withstand competition / challenge. More discussion should in theory wither the fragile ones:

https://youtu.be/BiqDZlAZygU

The real issue is echo chambers, and getting people to voluntarily cross- pollinate their bubbles. Censoring actually makes this issue worse though.

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Re:Maybe we shouldn't want a fully decentralized web by unknownkadath on Saturday December 05, 2020 @11:01AM (#25315476)

You are assuming that the market place of ideas selects for correctness rather than virality.

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Re:Maybe we shouldn't want a fully decentralized web by ryukafalz on Saturday December 05, 2020 @11:42AM (#25315832)

We might get a bit closer if our communication tools encouraged correctness rather than virality.

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Re:Maybe we shouldn't want a fully decentralized web by sudosysgen on Saturday December 05, 2020 @02:04PM (#25317289)

Which they never will without some central power because the (economic)market selects for virality when it comes to communication tools.

The action of that central power will be called censorship.

You could also try to have some guarantee of interoperability to reduce network effects and thus make the market effect weaker and reduce the selection for virality. That seems like something we could try.

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