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Re:Social media is broken – a new report offers ways to fix it by partomniscient on Sunday July 04, 2021 @11:04AM (#27730167)
>a decentralized social network where it's own users govern and moderate it sounds like a plausible way to make this...

That's what the entire internet was like in its early days.

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Re:Social media is broken – a new report offers ways to fix it by agustif on Sunday July 04, 2021 @11:15AM (#27730274)
I actually think the future of the internet might look like this but with micro-payment-transactions enabled by blockchain everywhere...

Ads killed the web

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Re:Social media is broken – a new report offers ways to fix it by abecedarius on Sunday July 04, 2021 @02:43PM (#27731712)
The big potential difference is that the early decentralized systems like Usenet and Relay treated costs and spam and paying their developers as out-of-band concerns. Whatever else you think of the newer stuff around blockchains, etc., it changes the game in just this way. If you want an online world not under the thumbs of Google/Facebook/Twitter/etc., you need a thesis about how the same takeover won't happen.
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