[3np]

In the post, they mention that each board will be moderated (filtered) by the creator, and the same goes for thread creators. Effectively it comes down to content creation and filters that can live on the client-side.

Any decentralized unauthenticated or federated social network faces the same issues around reputation, moderation and sybil attacks. Matrix, for example, has the same.

I imagine over time we'll get a growing economy of curation markets - users choose their own maintainers for allow/deny-lists and content discovery, effectively allowing them to use these networks in a way that is meaningful to them.

Some of these mechanisms are explored quite heavily by people in the Ethereum space - not necessarily with social networks in mind, but I think these kinds of mechanisms are going to play a more important role in our world in the coming decades (lest we go deeper into centralized control)

[aninuth]

Yeah, so Ruqqus does something very similar at the moment - using "guilds" and allowing individuals to maintain their own. The problem is with the people that the platform attracts - basically every guild on Ruqqus is something along the lines of "blackcrimesmatter" or "wakeupwhitepeople" not because the site is explicitly disincentivizing people with other beliefs from joining but because the audience is self-selected (people who think Pepe is a symbol of resistance) and because it's hard to end up with a diverse userbase. Decentralized networks where participants interact are still bound by the laws of human behavior, and people aren't going to frequent a space where they aren't welcome. The reason that Matrix 'works' is because there is no cross-cluster interaction: I have a server set up where I can chat with friends, but have no reason to interact with the pretty horrible use cases. Sites like these, on the other hand, are designed to normalize those use cases and encourage you to join those communities.

[3np]

> Effectively it comes down to content creation and filters that can live on the client-side.

Too late to edit but meant to write "content curation"