IRC, gnusocial, xmpp, sms to some degree, ham radio, etc.
The absence of censorship I think will prove to be tangible enough to make products like peertube successful.
The absence of censorship I think will prove to be tangible enough to make products like peertube successful.
decentralized youtube might be easier to get rolling, on the other hand. all it takes is sharing your videos through it instead of youtube. think about how most people found youtube -- someone linked them a video, statistically likely to be evolution of dance. no reason that can't be done with peertube.
Let's not defend the worse thing here.
I already addressed it.
Without censorship, decentralized products can thrive. And they currently are.
HN's response was "but they're not very big!!!1!"
the parent comment to my initial post said the absence of censorship, but anecdotally the kinds of people i've seen going to "censorship-free" alternative sites are the kinds i don't particularly care to associate with. voat.co being the "shining" example
Or did you think that magically goes away because it's centralized?
GS instances have ways to block content instance-wide. So spam and porn filters can catch items and prevent all users on the instance from seeing it.
I don't know if ActivityPub specifies things like that in the spec yet, but moderation is of course a huge factor in the success of the fediverse. Lots of work is devoted to it.
Incredibly, nobody needs to be censored. The offending poster can be reported to authorities and handled from there without ever having to tell a user what they can and cannot post.
"Incredibly, nobody needs to be censored. "
This is flat out not true. Kiddie porn and spam, for instance.
"The offending poster can be reported to authorities and handled from there without ever having to tell a user what they can and cannot post."
Except you're still telling people what not to post. The problem is that you're not allowing for a way to prevent that in the first place.