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1. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2017 21:26:23 UTC Bob Mottram

   • Most Johnly of Henries
   • Sonya Mann ✅
   • JP:hot_pepper: :hot_pepper:
   @sonya @johnhenry @jp this is a much better article than the last one I read, and makes some good suggestions, but the silo thinking remains evident.
   
   

   "Your identity should not be coupled with the moderation policy of whichever platform you host your social graph on"
   
   

   Yes it should. This solves the moderation problem which the author talks about. You go to the instance with which you have the greatest affinity. Affinity groups don't usually need to do much internal policing, and it's the extremely arbitrary use of moderation powers which is one of the major problems driving users to leave the silos.
   
   On guarantees of continuation of service on the internet there have never been any such guarantees. In siloland, such as Facebook, you can have your account or group censored on a whim without explanation or any possibility of data recovery. No guarantees of continued service there either. They simply do not care about individual users or sometimes even sizeable groups. Ultimately the only services you can trust are those run by people with whom you have some degree of affinity.
   • Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2017 21:44:46 UTC Bob Mottram

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     • Most Johnly of Henries
     • Sonya Mann ✅
     • JP:hot_pepper: :hot_pepper:
     @johnhenry @sonya @jp a conjecture which I often come out with is that many of the problems of social networks, especially of the silos, are actually network topology issues in disguise. Get the physical topology right and I expect that a lot of the moderation issues and fighting which you see on sites like Twitter as groups with highly divergent world views are forced together will go away.
     
     I think the last book which Pieter Hintjens wrote was called Social Architecture. While I don't think he had all the answers I do think we should take the architecture of social organisation seriously.