[whobar]

Just looking at this from a technical perspective, it'll be pretty exciting if all this ends up leading to an explosion in the take up of self-hosted social media platforms.

The question is, will the creators of these communities trust cloud providers where the platforms are hosted to not de-platform them, or will we end up with P2P, distributed networks instead?

[gonzo41]

When you take you're tech to it's limit you get mailing lists, again.

[cousin_it]

Then email providers will kick out unapproved users, DNS will kick out unapproved email providers, and so on.

I want an anti-authoritarian internet. The past year has been surreal.

[laurent92]

Until China, Japan and Russia unite to provide disenfranchised Americans with a free internet that is off-limits from the grabbing hands of the US elites.

And it will thrive and will be a better place to make more money that SV for 5-10 years, until it gets censored like any public space.

[sidlls]

Including “China” and “free internet” in the same sentence is hilarious. Unless something like “will never tolerate” is in between them.

[pbourke]

Are you seriously calling for China, of all countries, to create a network free of censorship?

[sjg007]

It’ll have to be p2p maybe with super nodes to replicate.

You will want a data mesh layer that multiple apps run on top of probably.

[davidw]

> explosion in the take up of self-hosted social media platforms.

Network effects drive a lot of adoption of these things, which is a huge headwind against an "explosion" of them lasting that long.