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by apitman
862 days ago
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What are you optimizing for and what's your threat model? Personally I'm optimizing for UX and data ownership. One reason centralized services are bad is they tend to turn into monopolies. Once there's no competition there's no incentive for UX to be good. More ads, less useful features, more useless features, etc. Using a decentralized protocol and providing custom domains is sufficient for me. If you're optimizing for censorship resistance and your threat model is that registrars want to take you down because there are enough people mad about what you're posting, you're going to have to make UX tradeoffs that most people don't and shouldn't need to. |
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> If they ban you then you take everything, including your profile domain, ...
This reads like censorship resistance against moderation/management going insane on its own, to me. And in reality, that rarely happens. It's ongoing on Twitter, kind of, but that's less than once in a decade occurrence, and the crazy element wasn't internal.
What happens more often is some fundamentalist group or something starts harassing companies, often leveraging advertisers, credit card companies, perhaps some backend APIs too, sometimes even foreign laws way outside jurisdictions, to get them swallow their agendas. That leads to bans and insane policies getting introduced.
And, if you look at what happened to Twitter in last few years, I think you can see the latter of above two descriptions is closer to what happened to it; whether it was foreign conspiracy, or purely to that guy's insanity, or politics, it was external force that lead to the situation that necessitated escape. It was sane-ish up to the acquisition.