If only there were some kind of middle ground… sadly only extremes exist 😔
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poVoq@slrpnk.net 3 weeks agoThe general population is used to facebook and can’t even imagine an different alternative, and just copying facebook is pointless as you just end up with another Facebook with the same bad incentives for the people running it.
Zorque@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
poVoq@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Well, this is a more philosophical question, but it is a result of misaligned incentives and not because someone is having some evil master-plan. Most of today’s Facebook like sites didn’t start out as evil empires, they became so basically by necessity once they chose a certain trajectory. The only way to prevent that is to have strong defense mechanisms in place from the very beginning and that then can easily appear as the other extreme.
Zorque@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
But only accepting one possible alternative is an extreme. You can build in safeguards… but if they’re too rigorous you will drive away potential users. Much like with freedom and security, you need to middle ground between accessibility and defensibility.
poVoq@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
No one talks about only one possible alternative, but it is often not immediately obvious to laypersons why a defense mechanism is vital to have and can not be made a middle ground. Like for example there is no way to weaken end to end encryption a little bit to scan for CSAM, without breaking it entirely.
rumba@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I didn’t say copy facebook
I’m not saying don’t decentralize at all
Forcing people to decentralize it’s going to work in most places.
I’m not spending any more time on the subject, I think we’re at an impassse and neither of us are going to change our minds.
Honestly, it’s a great project though,
best of luck