Freedom of speech is important to a lot of people here.
It's clear the time to develop and build communities around federated and mesh solutions.
How do we ensure we develop these solutions efficiently and while keeping freedom of speech at the forefront?
I'm not a developer, but I've been thinking and talking about decentralized open-source solutions for many years. I'm not skilled enough to develop these myself, but I have a lot of ideas.
It's time to make this happen.
@lukewestlake the difficulty is that truly decentralized communications tend to get overrun with viruses, spam, and CP. Fixing this issue requires a certain level of centralization, but over time, centralization costs money and leads to monopolization generally.
I think to a point you're right, in that we will inevitably self organize where people like us are running nodes/servers, lead communities, etc. But I think it can all be done in a more horizontal fashion in terms of choice.
It can be my choice to join a certain community and filter out others. It can be my choice to follow who you're following and who appears in my timeline.
Those assume vertical structure, but horizontal choice.
If that makes sense.
@Demosthenes People will do evil illegal stuff no matter what. None of this is easy to solve, but that's part of the fun.
I would rather see a base layer that's immutable and give the end user the ability to filter out the noise.
If someone wants to take advantage of decentralized tech to do shady shit, I'm confident a market will arise where people figure out solutions and make good money providing those solutions.
More entrepreneurs & devs are being driven here as we speak. This is solvable
We can't escape the need for hierarchy