I don't actually think that's true. I think the problem is that we have structured information dissemination in a way that strongly helps one particular kind of falsehood. Change the structure and the incentives will change.
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Replying to @RokoMijic @RokoMijicUK
Not even close to what I've observed. If there's ever a forum where right wing opinion is allowed the left either abandons it or demands that it be moderated away - every time.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon
yes, which is why we need something that is impossible to ban
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Replying to @RokoMijic @RokoMijicUK
It's not impossible to ban but http://gab.ai is pretty hard to kill (been cut off from payment processors, ad networks, etc.) and doesn't ban users except for legal violations How does the left / mainstream react? "That's the white nationalist / nazi twitter"
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon
I get the impression that Gab has other problems though, like a lack of *quality* content.
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Replying to @RokoMijic @RokoMijicUK
It's circular though. Mainstream institutions are hopelessly infiltrated / compromised by the left but they're mainstream for a reason - if you read a fact in the NYT, it's likely not fabricated. 1/2
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @RokoMijicUK
Covfefe Anon Retweeted Roko
Like you say, you need incentives for true / insightful content to rise out of the morass of nonsense. This requires reputation which requires permanent identities, which means doxing and loss of livelihood. 2/2https://twitter.com/RokoMijicUK/status/1184515507627679744 …
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon
But I don't think it *requires* *real* identities. What's needed are quasi-permanent pseudonymous identities like we see on Reddit etc, with a reputation tracking system that works and maybe other stuff.
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Replying to @RokoMijic @RokoMijicUK
Sure, but look at actual reddit for the counterexample - the most soybug site on the internet. Urbit is the bet that permanent pseudonymous identities is a solution to this problem.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon
But I thought urbit was an attempt to reinvent the entire internet, sounds like Xanadu 2.0 and doomed to failure
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An attempt to reinvent the internet but keeping in mind the problem that became obvious after we saw a working first internet - that there's no way to integrate stable pseudonymous identities at a low level (obv today you *could* sign all your messages with a private key)
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