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witheld | 2 years ago

The content you’ve linked really does a good job at showing how completely decentralized P2P social media is a terrible, terrible idea.

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dang|2 years ago

Please don't snarkily dismiss someone's work. If you want to contribute constructively, there are plenty of other ways to bring this point.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

witheld|2 years ago

One of the first posts I saw was the N word over and over

geysersam|2 years ago

Decentralized does not mean there's no moderation. 4chan is centralized but the content can be... We don't need big companies to help us do quality moderation. Quite the opposite.

P2P social media is a fantastic idea.

nelox|2 years ago

Yep, it may be technically of interest, but devoid of any modicum of social nuance or sophistication.

geysersam|2 years ago

Yes because Reddit gets its sophistication from being centralized and VC owned?

The quality of Reddit is created by the users. If they used a P2P platform the content would be of high quality.