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Re:The promise and paradox of decentralization by api on Friday November 05, 2021 @03:35PM (#29123817)
The way I look at it is that deplatforming by the existing centralized platforms is actually a way for them to create a more powerful moat.

Any competitor will immediately be inundated by spam, scammers, child porn, trolls, and Nazis to name a few. Since bad drives away good this will make their platform less desirable. The existence of a highly toxic refugee population deters anyone from creating competing networks.

I don't think this was planned or intended, but it works out this way.

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Re:The promise and paradox of decentralization by Robotbeat on Friday November 05, 2021 @04:18PM (#29124290)
That’s really well put & I hadn’t thought of things that way before. I think the solution is very active moderation and barriers put in the place of new account creation. (Gotta rely on a community of people who already want to be a community.)
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Re:The promise and paradox of decentralization by BeFlatXIII on Saturday November 06, 2021 @07:26AM (#29129290)
This has already played out several times with different Reddit clones.
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