Now, if you’re on a decentralized platform, data is distributed across many servers or computers. Those aren’t necessarily owned or operated by the creator of the platform you’re using. The power, the authority, the control is spread out. A decentralized system gives everyone more freedom, but it also means that because the data is distributed, there’s no authority who gets the final word, so it’s harder to find and remove illegal or objectionable content.
Holy cow...listening to this brought back dormant memories. UUCP then Bitnet for point-to-point email exchange. IRC, of course. Then NNTP for newsgroups. Later in the podcast, they interview someone with Mastodon who talks about funding an instance for $500/month using Patreon. Could there be a resurgence of distributed communication tools run by dedicated hobbyists? Should there be?
