Re:Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network
by specialist on Friday March 10, 2023 @05:00PM
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BBS networks (eg FidoNet, PC-Relay) were pretty great too.
FWIW, I believe, but cannot prove, that content moderation on Internet accessible "open" messaging systems (aka store & forward, decentralized) is not feasible.
Back in the day, I was hub for a small BBS network as well as moderated a forum on CompuServe. It was manageable, but a lot of work, esp for volunteers like me. These days, there's no way I could do a reasonable job.
I guess we'll see if I'm correct with the Mastodon experiment.
FWIW, I believe, but cannot prove, that content moderation on Internet accessible "open" messaging systems (aka store & forward, decentralized) is not feasible.
Back in the day, I was hub for a small BBS network as well as moderated a forum on CompuServe. It was manageable, but a lot of work, esp for volunteers like me. These days, there's no way I could do a reasonable job.
I guess we'll see if I'm correct with the Mastodon experiment.