Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government

• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Sure. It’s like comparing having one tyrant, which can be good or bad (but at least isn’t going anywhere) vs a lot of tyrants whose power is limited to their little area, and who will come and go. I guess that’s better, but I don’t think anyone would say it’s “good,” just a bit better.

  I like the Fediverse, I just think it only went halfway to solving the problem.

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  • 73ms@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Do you have a proposal for how you’d solve the other half then or just think it isn’t enough?

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah, I’m working on something that I think should improve on things, but I keep bringing it up in the hopes that someone beats me to it. Here are some notes:

      • P2P network based on something like IPFS or Iroh (I picked Iroh)
      • a “community” is a distributed hash table, with posts, comments, etc as structured keys
      • everything is cryptographically signed by the author, so you can check for tampering (built-in feature of Iroh)
      • moderation is also distributed, based on “trust”; everyone is a moderator, and you “trust” others’ moderation either explicitly or by happening to moderate similarly; options are “like,” “dislike,” “relevant,” “report” (spam, CSAM, etc)
      • everyone contributes a little storage to the network, and you can adjust your storage quota

      Some interesting side effects of this design:

      • single namespace - no “instances” since hosting is distributed (so just “Technology” instead of “Technology@lemmy.world”)
      • everyone will see a different feed due to differences in moderation choices
      • no concept of “all” since you wouldn’t sync communities you don’t care about - I would add a discovery mechanism to help here
      • could be “sneakernetted” if countries block this service, provided you have a way to discover other users in each closed region
      • nobody can censor you since moderation is opt-in, so I literally cannot respond to takedown requests by governments
      • there’s a very real risk of echo chambers, but that’s on the user not centralized mods

      When launching, I’d have a default set of mods that automatically “block” things like CSAM, but users can choose to remove those and/or adjust weights. The idea is for moderation to be transparent, but also something users aren’t expected to change.

      The only hosting needs would be:

      • relay servers to connect people - relay servers would be federated and incredibly lightweight
      • storage instances - only needed in the early days until enough people join the network
      • website for documentation and whatnot

      It’s very early days (still working on the P2P part, but have a POC for the moderation algorithm). I’ll probably post once I feel like it’s actually useful, which won’t be for a while.

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      • Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Sounds like you’re mistaking filters for moderation.

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