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Comment by olah_1 | Hacker News Reader

Have there been any breakthroughs recently? Or just sharing to share?

There has been a number of HN submissions about decentralization and Internet freedom today, probably as a reaction to the deplatforming of Parler: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25706993

Probably not a coincidence that this gets posted with no context the day that Parler gets kicked off AWS.

I presume it's someone trying to offer Cabal as a Parler alternative.

I doubt that https://github.com/cabal-club/commons/blob/master/values.md#...

But if architected for openness without central censorship chokepoints, such affinity declarations can’t alone prevent participation. Mastodon’s tech is used by Gab, for example.

At best this can:

* influence the observable qualities of the closely-collaborating dev community – who’ll have to outwardly project these values.

* lead to the prioritization of decentralized user-driven moderation features, which still allow the disfavored groups to communicate with other willing audiences, with minimized impact on unwilling audiences.

They in no way support free speech.

Think of it this way, if 4chan wasn’t a website, no one would allow it to exist.

Web technology has a certain responsibility, so I think all the alternative communication tech is in response to the theme of this week.

Agreed, context here is timely for sure. Large groups perhaps trying to secretly coordinate online to stage an '' event''? Web technologies for this are abundant; and yet so very easily infiltrated. End to end encryption is redundant if you've no idea who to trust.

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