“Decentralization alone is not able to solve some of the thorniest problems of social media, such as misinformation, harassment, and hate speech.
However, by opening up the internals of a service to contributors who are not employees of a particular company, decentralization can enable a marketplace of approaches to these problems.
For example, Bluesky allows anybody to run moderation services that make subjective decisions of selecting desirable content or flagging undesirable content, and users can choose which moderation services they want to subscribe to.
Moderation services are decoupled from hosting providers, making it easy for users to switch moderation services until they find ones that match their preferences.
Our hope is that this architectural openness enables communities to develop their own approaches to managing problematic content, independently of what any particu- lar service operator implements.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03239
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