We shouldn’t expect bodies and companies that benefit from centralization to give us crumbs. Remember IPv6 global multicast? ISPs killed that on sight.
We need to get encrypted mesh networking (Yggdrasil, CJDNS, FIPS etc) out there before it’s too late.
The comparison doesn’t even make sense. Reddit is a centralized platform, not a protocol.
I won’t say it’s impossible to censor something like nostr but good luck with that.
I’m using nix for managing npm dependencies in a project and it seems like I accidentally got some protection from these attacks because of the nix sandbox.
Looks like I got more than I begged for.
If people spent 5 minutes googling decentralized alternatives to stuff they would realize they don’t need to build anything, just pick something and use.
That’s because designers stopped caring about following each platform’s guidelines because they want to spread “brand recognition” or some shit like that.
That doesn’t answer the point I’m making.
If the instance your account was made on explodes, YOU lose your social graph, wether some of your posts survive cached elsewhere is not relevant, your account is gone, and so are your connections.
You have no way to prove an account made after the original instance went down belongs to someone, that’s the issue with federated systems.
As for content moderation, in nostr relay operators such as nostr.build handle legal takedowns on a daily basis, SSB is a little trickier since it’s mostly p2p but pubs are still able to control what flows through them to some degree.
This is half true. If mastodon.social goes down every single one of the accounts made on that instance go down as well.
In truly decentralized protocols you own your identity and can take it elsewhere, for instance, in Nostr and SSB, a relay/pub going down is no big deal since you can connect to other servers and maintain communications.
We need to get encrypted mesh networking (Yggdrasil, CJDNS, FIPS etc) out there before it’s too late.