The moral imperative of a distributed social layer

-Community-controlled censorship - I believe censorship should happen at the app layer, not the protocol layer. You can email child porn but Gmail will not show it to you. You might want Donald Trump removed, but I want to hear from the sitting President. People must be able to choose apps that tap into a common protocol with different censorship l... See more

Every year, centralized social networks place more restrictions on what users and developers can do. They seem to believe that limiting choices is the path to a healthy network, while the opposite is probably true. A decentralized social network can challenge this hypothesis by making two powerful promises that centralized networks cannot. They can... See more