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Replying to @randrews@somewhy.net
@light 3/3
The same thing should work for discussions also: no particular relay could censor stuff because they would just stop being the source anyone pulls that stuff from.
The problem you hit though is the discussion forking, and the general speed that things propagate through the network. Also filter bubbles: if I don't follow some news then I also can't relay that news to people downstream.
Not sure how to solve those yet.
Replying to @randrews@somewhy.net
@light 2/
This also answers another problem: if the site host can't moderate the site, if they have no more privileges than an ordinary user, why are they hosting it? What do they get out of it?
I think the answer is to make it peer-to-peer. You can talk to anyone on the network and get what they think is the latest news, cryptographically attested to be uncensored / unaltered. If one relay dies more take its place.
Replying to @light@noc.social
@light Money isn't a big motivation for me at least, but I have thought about this kind of thing before, I'd certainly be interested in talking about the problem.
I was thinking this in 2021, when news stuff was getting censored for "misinformation" a lot. My scenario was that you have a story, you want to publish it, but you can't post it to a central place (because it'll get censored) and your readers need to know it's you who wrote it.
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Replying to @light@noc.social
@light I’m a software engineer (sort of; technically at this point I manage a team of them, but until recently I was one for 26 years). I can teach you about things like that. What do you want to know?