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Saw a tweet from

this morning asking Apple & Google to ban Parler from their app stores. Seems Apple is now in the process of doing so unless they start moderating violent content. Between the violence in Washington and Dems taking over, right wing havens at risk. twitter.com/seanmdav/statu

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Jesse Powell

@jespow

Jan 8, 2021

Wen banning all web browsers? The problem isn’t really the content — it’s the algo promoting it. These services will eventually become fully decentralized if they’re forced to moderate all content. Then what? Back to the real solution: education, screeners, web of trust.

Bobby Goodlatte

@rsg

Jan 8, 2021

I've had the same thought. Decentralized networks with the same sort of negative externality producing algorithms scare the heck out of me. We may have all the same problems, with no "off" switch.

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Different incentives with a D solution though. You’re not the product. It’s a utility to benefit your life, not a black hole to suck out your eyeballs. Therefore, it would be built to be useful. You would run your own filters on the firehouse, not rely on an adversary’s algo.

10:14 PM · Jan 8, 2021Twitter for iPhone

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It's possible you could still arrive at an engagement-obsessed algorithm, even decentralized for 2 reasons: 1) You have to compete for attention share w/ centralized networks 2) You might still "monetize" through attention & ads, but just distribute the proceeds to token holders

Dare Obasanjo

@Carnage4Life

Jan 8, 2021

Engagement algorithms aren't really the problem, the content is. Parler's problem isn't the algorithm but instead that they don't moderate content. People seek out information that confirms their biases and sometimes that info is unsavory or even illegal. That isn't an algo issue

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