Comment on Plebbit Will Never Deliver, Apologies for the Hype, Lemmy's Where I’m Staying

• rinse@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Is it a problem though? There are thousands of email providers you can choose form, and they still work fine for sending and receiving email.

  An email provider as well as mastodon provider can:

  • Read incoming messages
  • Block me from sending messages to specific people
  • Block me from fetching content I want

  Can I choose another email provider that will let me do what I want? Yeah maybe I can find one, or maybe I can run my one, but then these big email providers they’re gonna start blocking or throttling self hosters making it infeasible or extremely incovienet to run your own email instance.

  Not to mention, there’s a financial + time cost to setting up your own email/mastodon instances that most people won’t bother with.

  Look at Bittorrent or Plebbit as an example, running a full p2p node is literally a single click and nobody can censor you. The barrier of entry for self hosters is much lower.

  One your point on power law, the fediverse is pretty healthy.

  Mastodon social controles a big chunk of the network, that’s not healthy imo. That’s a huge power of the network.

  imo moderation of the network should never be at the center, rather it should be pushed to the edges of the network (users). I like Bluesky’s model of subscribing to someone’s labels of the content, and maybe we’re gonna have something similar in Plebbit as well. In Plebbit currently you can choose which communities you subscribe to, and you can also filter by NSFW and other tags, so you’re not really forced to see content you don’t like.

  Also community owners set the rules for their own communities and enforce it however they like, there are no global admins.

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  • monogram@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    is literally a single click and nobody can censor you.

    Catering to CSAM is see.

    That’s a huge power of the network.

    If you’re going to talk about power Threads is the one to speak of and lots of hosts blocked it.

    MAU 2-10k seems to be a sweet spot for alternatives to mastodon.social and that list combined is significant.

    Bluesky’s modal ≠ no global admins

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    • rinse@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If somebody does something illegal, it’s up to the government to act on it. Also users of clients can choose to omit certain communities or keywords from their feed. This is a healthier approach than letting a few dudes in Silicon valley telling us what to see/think

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      • monogram@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Lots of mastodon hosts aren’t from the US.

        It makes your choice of Twitter and Bluesky all the more questionable.

        It sounds like you just don’t like being blocked.

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