Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech (2019)

Re:Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Fre... by deadbunny on Thursday January 28, 2021 @01:18PM (#25946254)

I don't know, HN isn't much more than a focused subreddit (no offense meant!).

I could imagine some kind of federated Reddit where HN could be a community fully managed by dang et al. according to their own needs/wants.

Then you just subscribe to each community as you like. Much like you can unsubscribe to all the default subreddits and only subscribe to the subreddits that interest you, only this time you don't have Reddit 's commercial interests/standards hanging over your head with the power to shut you down.

Granted I'm not sure of the value (other than censorship resistance) vs. a set of fragmented, specialized forums we had way back when.

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Re:Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Fre... by kixiQu on Thursday January 28, 2021 @03:20PM (#25948471)

Lemmy is Mastodon for Reddit, so it lets you have a instance with a set of subreddits, basically, from a user can also subscribe to other instances' subreddits. I'm not involved with the code or anything, I just think it's neat. https://lemmy.ml

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Re:Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Fre... by deadbunny on Thursday January 28, 2021 @04:11PM (#25949268)

Thansk for the heads up, will give it a look!

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Re:Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Fre... by cousin_it on Thursday January 28, 2021 @06:48PM (#25951224)

I don't think dividing sidewalk ownership among many companies is enough to achieve free speech. We need something more.

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