I agree with this, but with a significant caveat. There will be groups like alt.WeLoveNazis, and the system will need to think about how to react to that. This is something that the fediverse is currently struggling with, I think.
Not sure I agree with "struggling" per se. It's ongoing effort, and never perfect, but the Fediverse's architectural answer to that seems to mostly work. It accepts that toxic speech will happen -- there's no way to prevent that, in a distributed environment -- so it instead focuses on what amounts to a treaty-based approach: we'll talk to you so long as you enforce behavior rules that we agree with.
There are certainly gaps, and I'm sure there is room for improvement (especially in figuring out how to moderate at scale), but so far I'm cautiously optimistic about the approach.
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Not sure I agree with "struggling" per se. It's ongoing effort, and never perfect, but the Fediverse's architectural answer to that seems to mostly work. It accepts that toxic speech will happen -- there's no way to prevent that, in a distributed environment -- so it instead focuses on what amounts to a treaty-based approach: we'll talk to you so long as you enforce behavior rules that we agree with.
There are certainly gaps, and I'm sure there is room for improvement (especially in figuring out how to moderate at scale), but so far I'm cautiously optimistic about the approach.