Post ASkmfaxUXxZwIHl5Iu by youfoundryan@macaw.social
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 (DIR) Post #ASkR4dbrd3DalSB7iq by mmasnick@mastodon.social
       2023-02-16T20:13:29Z
       
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       Over on the other site, people keep telling me that a decentralized social media platform "could never" work. And yet... it is working? "Too many tradeoffs" they tell me. There are tradeoffs, but when I add them up, they seem to favor the decentralized platform over the centralized one.  So strange.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASkR4eE9KhqKgC5hOi by wjmaggos@liberal.city
       2023-02-16T20:21:35Z
       
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       @mmasnick even if they are serious about the tradeoffs, they wouldn't care about them if most people were here instead of there. excuses.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASkmdhMZlPWvZuaS1I by Andres@mastodon.hardcoredevs.com
       2023-02-16T20:14:30Z
       
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       @mmasnick Yeah, email servers would never work. 😂
       
 (DIR) Post #ASkmeqU9Kim89xg0BM by kkeller@curling.social
       2023-02-16T20:16:09Z
       
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       @mmasnick what exactly are the tradeoffs they cite that favor Twitter?  My guess is most of them either imagined, or not actually tradeoffs.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASkmer9ypCEgFhFPNo by mmasnick@mastodon.social
       2023-02-16T21:22:35Z
       
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       @kkeller In this latest case, the guy claimed that content moderation couldn't work well in a distributed setting and "won't work for the majority of people"
       
 (DIR) Post #ASkmfCtm08LNfnpmAy by cyberdionysos@infosec.exchange
       2023-02-16T20:31:32Z
       
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       @mmasnick I don't think it's everyone of course, but sometimes I suspect some of them, in part, fear the consequences of decentralization and the empirical claims about if it's workable are a cover, or wishful thinking.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASkmfaxUXxZwIHl5Iu by youfoundryan@macaw.social
       2023-02-16T21:16:50Z
       
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       @mmasnick I'll admit I think there are some major hurdles in the future—and particularly some nasty potential threats that haven't emerged—that make me wary of the long-term viability here, but it's still a hell of a lot more promising than going back to a centralized dictatorship.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASkmhHrQWU7HdsjDvc by GustavinoBevilacqua@mastodon.cisti.org
       2023-02-16T20:16:59Z
       
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       @mmasnick I don't see the "decentralization" as a problem, since I can follow all the instances federated with mine, and this is a huge amount of people.