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On Wednesday, 12 July 2017 at 20:11:06 UTC, Vitor Rozsas wrote:
> So... suggestions... Centralized? Decentralized?
>
> I think the centralized wouldn't fit in any country. It would 
> certainly contain pedophile posts... and any sane country would 
> shut down the servers immediately...
>
> So... DEcentralized?

Hi! I do not think the debate you have with yourself is 
decentralized vs centralized. You are thinking about moderated vs 
unmoderated. One is a technical structure, the other is a social 
one.

We got used to have moderated channels in media and unmoderated 
channels in person. Now the problem we are facing is that we use 
these social media platforms for replacing "in person" 
communications with friend and family. And the owners of these 
platforms are still treating it as "media" that they should 
moderate.

But this is not so black-and-white still. When i am talking to my 
mother-in-law who has different political biases than me, I 
moderate *myself* not to bring up topics that would just divide 
us, because I love her enough to tolerate her opinions. What 
happens is that we have many social circles in which we have 
different topics and ethical norms. This is in our nature and 
that is fine. Football fans ventilate their emotions at the game, 
but they would not use the same language in their workplace.

So what I see is that a social media platform should be 
decentralized to avoid influence from its owner. It should be 
divided into many communities. And each community should be able 
to downvote content that is not tolerated in those circles. And 
downvoted content should be also available by others, it should 
just take more actions to peek into that and convince yourself 
that it was indeed something inapt for that community.

In the digital world, everything seems to be black and white. But 
social behaviors are more subtle than that. It is easy to create 
a total dictatorial system like facebook, and it is also easy to 
create a total anarchist system like Silk Road. And our goal is 
to create a system that is similar to in-real-life communication, 
which is neither completely free, nor completely controlled.

You cannot build that system on top of a centralized architecture 
where a government can just ask for all data including a order to 
keep that secret. People never trusted their inner thoughts or 
family conversation onto the government. And they should not.