Decentralised Content Moderation

martin.kleppmann.com

Here's a tldr;

>spammers, neo-nazis, and child pornographers (or any other type of content that you consider despicable)

>Wikipedia editors are predominantly white, male

>it may be appropriate to take into account the power relationships between the people involved, and hold the privileged and powerful to a higher standard than the oppressed and disadvantaged, since otherwise the system may end up reinforcing existing imbalances

That's an interesting take home from the article.

What I got from it was "We can create distributed social networks that are censorship resistant (this is a problem with technical solutions), but that isn't necessarily a good idea. Some form of decentralised moderation process is also needed (which is both a social and technical problem)."

The author is a researcher on distributed systems. I found this video from him to be an excellent first education on CRDTs, how they work, what they're good for and what they aren't (yet) good for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7drE24geUw

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