Billionaire-proof open social media is now mission-critical infrastructure for the future of democracy.
@ntnsndr Why?
Please explain as if to someone not in your political/ideological/social bubble.
@ntnsndr To my mind, that means P2P networks and darknets.
Only then can we have truly free speech.
But they needn't be ungoverned.
They can be designed with new forms of governance, unconstrained by the implicit feudalism of the old.
@ntnsndr For example, Aether (a Reddit-like) had democratic and individualistic moderation (collectively vote on default moderation for newcomers but your vote is your moderator regardless): https://getaether.net/
And Cabal Chat has what they call "subjective moderation" (choose your own moderators): https://cabal.chat/
@light Yes, I think Aether was a really interesting experiment!
Hylo has also been introducing some interesting collaborative moderation tools.
And a student of mine has been building user-governed moderation for Bsky: https://pmsky.social/