• @kixik
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    31 year ago

    I have mix feelings with blog post…

    While decentralization is good for many reasons, and distributed systems are even better than decentralized ones, saying fascism, providing nazis a place to gather, and giving voice to extremists, are not a decentralization problem or weakness, and the post sort of accepts that as given and sort of provides workarounds through quarantining and the like.

    People will always find a place to gather, and make themselves feel. Before there was centralized social media places, and even before internet, there were fascists and nazis. And when big corps started to van people they consider unacceptable on their spaces, then they built and found other places for them, so whether centralized or not, people will find ways to gather and share their thinking, whether that’s something big corps, big media, or common sense find those thoughts acceptable or not.

    The real problems on centralized services are giving too much control and power to a few ones, who have their own agenda, their own interests, their own criteria, without giving a damn on what’s true or not, what’s common sense or no, what benefits majority or not. Big media has always concentrated too much power, and now big tech corps do the same, and they interests are not there to represent everybody’s interest. The vanning culture of Today, the censoring culture of Today, the dislike of different opinions of Today, are not just because of centralization, but sure are empowered and accelerated by centralization, and those are as corrosive to society as fascism and extremism, actually that mono-thinking and mono-culture might actually be a sort of those things culturally thought as bad. Not to count how centralization affects privacy, and adds way more risk to data we would like to preserve, given single points of control, single points of failure, and single points of risk.

    To finish, I hoped much more about such title, but oh well…

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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      01 year ago

      Agreed, centralization doesn’t really help with the problem of right wing extremism, and if Facebook is anything to go by, it can make it actively worse.