That's a good fucking point

Yeah

This is a really good illustration of the point

Just cause your equipped to do something doesn't mean you do those things

His answer has got to be the best quip to that remark I've ever hear

Video taken from a superior video

but still good

Yet another person who lost a job due to SJWs. My sympathies.

Also, Gab is still down.

I'd like to see Gab become a decentralised blockchain based service. It would literally be impossible to stop

Gab DAPP

I have been thinking about the decntralization aspect.

I think it doesn't necessarily prevent censorship.

For example, I think Gab is decentralized already, through its CDN and its database. It would not have mattered how many data centers or CDNs Gab would have been distributed over, Microsoft, in the case of the Patrick Little post, could have still pressured them to delete the post.

mastodon is a neat decentralised network

there is a blockchain protocol coming called "Mainframe", it's completely censorship resistant, they show that nothing can stop it.

I tried mastadon, it was annoying to use

it's easier for me than twitter <:shrug_raka:430185885988945921>

I think the important distinction is between decentralization of content and decentralization of _control_. As long as control remains centralized, you are responsible, because you can kill a post, regardless of how decentralized. However, if control was decentralized, even if storage was centralized (albeit that is less likely), you have protection, usually.

https://mainframe.com

mainframe will turn the world on its head

I will read over it.

unstopabble censorship resistance

i'm not invested, just think it sounds solid

i probably should invest

But yes, I think something like blockchain could be a truly decentralized basis for a service. Even Bitchute, despite using Web Torrent, could be forced to take down a video, because they have control over the post itself, i.e. can remove it from their website.

not on mainframe, which is problematic as well.. imagine kiddie porn shops that setup on mainframe and can't be stopped etc

Technically, if BitChute was forced to "delete a video", the tracker that they use, which I believe is public, would still list the video and you could continue sharing it, with the same magnet link, but the video posting itself would be gone from the BitChute site, i.e. it would no longer show up for the user's channel or show up through a search on the BitChute site, because control over that is in BitChute's hands.

However, then you might as well simply share your videos as torrents. You are still basically deplatformed from BitChute, if they gave in.

I cannot think of a single framework that is like a web site where control is 100% decentralized, but maybe what you just posted is such an exception (reading now).

yeah what i posted is it

apps can be built on it that are unstoppable

As for Mastodon, I actually really, really like the concept. GNU Social is even nicer. It seems to have made a very conscious decision to use very established web concepts, such as using digest authentication (the one where you can embed user:pw in the URL) instead of something fancy like OAuth.

i just hate any system having human moderators

always bias

always exerting control

The API is incredibly simple, with posting an image, for example, being a simple HTTP POST, returning an ID in JSON, and you can then reference that ID in a post to attach it. It's the simplest API I have programmed against so far, out of Mastodon, Gab, Minds, Steemit, Twitter, and Facebook.

but it can be censored right?

someone is in control

Hmm ... let me think.