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Re:The promise and paradox of decentralization by cbsmith on Saturday November 06, 2021 @01:13PM (#29131953)
A hierarchy with the user on top is pretty much exactly what he's describing. It's a perfect environment for grifters & manipulators; to the extent that they get filtered out by people smart enough to recognize them for who they are, that's doing them a favour.
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Re:The promise and paradox of decentralization by api on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @12:16PM (#29164396)
This is a huge problem on conventional social media too.

We seem to be moving toward a society where grifters simply feast on the uneducated and un-discerning. The thing that makes it hard to police this is that the marks will themselves fight for the grifter, as we see with all the people fighting tooth and nail against their own access to health care or against treatments to stop them from getting horribly ill or dying in a pandemic.

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