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Re:Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding E... by parasubvert on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @05:59PM (#25436504)
The closest thing to this currently is Mastodon. https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/12/20691957/mastodon-decentr...

There are a lot of open hard technology and business problems to make decentralized systems act as good as centralized systems. In short, The web architecture (HTTP, HTML, URI, MIME) inherently is decentralized for consumption but encourages centralized updates. Many years ago I wrote about these technical challenges and some ideas for solutions on “the Write Side of the Web”.

https://www.slideshare.net/StuC/ill-see-you-on-the-write-sid...

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Re:Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding E... by bilbo0s on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @06:43PM (#25436995)
Mastodon, does not operate above the ability of a nation state to block Mastodon.

At the info tech department of a large flagship university recently, (and for reasons that are a bit salacious), there was a need to block mastodon servers on campus and some coming from off campus. It was almost as easy as the flip of a switch to turn it off. If a university can do it on their network, it's a virtual certainty that a nation state can do the same.

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Re:Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding E... by riffic on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @10:18PM (#25438653)
That's discouraging. You know MIT runs its own mastodon instance, right?

https://mastodon.mit.edu/about

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Re:Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding E... by yaomtc on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @07:05PM (#25437214)
Did this university ban the use of Tor?
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