I’m old enough to remember USENET and IRC. They were free, decentralized, and full of terrible. The solution isn’t as easy as just removing advertising as a business model.https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1074410762637008896 …
-
-
Replying to @dinodaizovi
How many elections did USENET newsgroups meddle in? How often did IRC channels incite large-scale ethnic violence in Myanmar? Or help recruit new members to terrorist groups?
2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @randomoracle
Do you really think that if these technologies were as common as social platforms today that they *wouldn’t* have been used instead? Malevolence goes to where the eyeballs are. If it were USENET/IRC, who would we summon before Congress about it? Who would we ask to address it?
3 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @dinodaizovi @randomoracle
Hmm, I think Cem has a point, there's no way to artificially signal boost a usenet or irc message except for spamming, which gets you klined or banned by your provider pretty quickly (otherwise they get the usenet death penalty).
1 reply 1 retweet 5 likes -
Old browser based mmos where you had to recruit troops by sharing a link and getting people to click on them did a decent job of incentivising people on IRC.
2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
Yep, they could get one ephemeral message in before being banned. I think that didn't last very long for the same reason ponzi schemes don't last 
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.