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Re:Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberr... by whobar on Thursday January 28, 2021 @09:41AM (#25942391)
Just looking at this from a technical perspective, it'll be pretty exciting if all this ends up leading to an explosion in the take up of self-hosted social media platforms.

The question is, will the creators of these communities trust cloud providers where the platforms are hosted to not de-platform them, or will we end up with P2P, distributed networks instead?

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Re:Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberr... by gonzo41 on Thursday January 28, 2021 @09:44AM (#25942428)
When you take you're tech to it's limit you get mailing lists, again.
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Re:Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberr... by cousin_it on Thursday January 28, 2021 @09:57AM (#25942666)
Then email providers will kick out unapproved users, DNS will kick out unapproved email providers, and so on.

I want an anti-authoritarian internet. The past year has been surreal.

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Re:Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberr... by laurent92 on Thursday January 28, 2021 @10:44AM (#25943603)
Until China, Japan and Russia unite to provide disenfranchised Americans with a free internet that is off-limits from the grabbing hands of the US elites.

And it will thrive and will be a better place to make more money that SV for 5-10 years, until it gets censored like any public space.

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Re:Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberr... by sidlls on Thursday January 28, 2021 @11:30AM (#25944401)
Including “China” and “free internet” in the same sentence is hilarious. Unless something like “will never tolerate” is in between them.
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Re:Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberr... by pbourke on Thursday January 28, 2021 @11:50AM (#25944700)
Are you seriously calling for China, of all countries, to create a network free of censorship?
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Re:Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberr... by sjg007 on Thursday January 28, 2021 @10:26AM (#25943250)
It’ll have to be p2p maybe with super nodes to replicate.

You will want a data mesh layer that multiple apps run on top of probably.

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Re:Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberr... by davidw on Thursday January 28, 2021 @10:43AM (#25943586)
> explosion in the take up of self-hosted social media platforms.

Network effects drive a lot of adoption of these things, which is a huge headwind against an "explosion" of them lasting that long.

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