[janalsncm]

We already have decentralized social media. Make your own website with an RSS feed. It will be yours forever. You can post whatever you want. It is decentralized in that it can be shared anywhere else but you own the content.

[tourmalinetaco]

> It will be yours forever. You can post whatever you want. It is decentralized in that it can be shared anywhere else but you own the content.

Unfortunately this is not the case. The current structure of the Internet is surprisingly fragile, and a dedicated attacker going after your website’s various network dependencies can cause a lot of headache. It’s rare, but it is still something important to note, especially if you have beliefs that are unsavory to those in power.

[immibis]

If your beliefs are merely that rich people should be eaten, you will have little problem finding a host. Even if you believe that all Jews should be immediately gassed, you will have little problem finding a host. The difficult hosting problems appear to come when your speech is immediately getting people killed, such as on Kiwifarms, but even they have managed to find a host.

[tourmalinetaco]

They’re still having problems with Hurricane Electric and other telecoms, problems no legal website should be having. The fact that they could even have these problems is itself a big deal, considering this has never happened before in the history of the Internet.

And it was never that their speech was “immediately getting people killed” (which is an exaggeration given even their most liberal “kill count” isn’t even in the double digits), but that certain people with tech connections (who have been redacted on HN) don’t want their “consent accidents” on public websites.

[immibis]

I'm fine with websites that kill people having trouble finding an ISP. I see nothing wrong with that. That is not the result of sliding down any slope. In fact, there should be more penalties. Usually when people are killed we put the perpetrators in prison for life.

[jauntywundrkind]

Broadcast only with no way for anyone engage you back doesn't feel very social to me.

[crtasm]

We still have email :)

[jauntywundrkind]

Generally for me, there's something amazing about having conversations available online for the world. Email really is more like a modernized mail system; yes it's about, but it misses the core strength of the internet & the web to be broadly available.

It again feels like a very ineffective way to socially network. It feels narrow cast. No one else is going to show up one day and contribute something to your email thread. It's again not very social, to me.

[noman-land]

This isn't social media. It's yelling into the void.

[Loughla]

Isn't that also what social media is? With the VAST amount of content posted by the second, it's a bit like shouting into an already loud void.