“If you’ve ever hosted a potluck and none of the guests were spouting antisemitic and/or authoritarian talking points, congratulations! You’ve achieved what some of the most valuable companies in the world claim is impossible.”
“If you’ve ever hosted a potluck and none of the guests were spouting antisemitic and/or authoritarian talking points, congratulations! You’ve achieved what some of the most valuable companies in the world claim is impossible.”
You’ll never be able to keep these people from talking to each other, but you can quarantine them in their own little circles where they cause as little damage as possible to the outside world.
Hopefully… Recent developments look more like they are using unmoderated social media to radicalize themselves and plan real shit.
Yes, even in small groups they can do absolutely horrible things, as they have done in the past. But that doesn’t really change if we allow them to have a bigger audience. And in the end, it’s also a numbers game. In a group of 100 fascists, the chance of encountering someone who is both motivated and capable of causing major harm to society is smaller than in a group of 10,000.
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They definitely do do that, but at their own peril. Political extremism that is segregated into a single area is more likely to be watched, and the watchers don’t have to look around too far either. Or, in the case of Truth Social IIRC, their data might become readily available.
Or even instances on the other side, like Kolektiva, which recently had a major data breach due to unencrypted data sitting around somebody’s house.
Open source technology being available to anybody is a sword that cuts both ways, especially depending on how amateurish the people running the software are.