<story><title>Decentralised content moderation</title><url>https://martin.kleppmann.com/2021/01/13/decentralised-content-moderation.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colllectorof</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s pretty obvious that the tech crowd right now is so intoxicated by its own groupthink that these attempts to come up with &amp;quot;solutions&amp;quot; are going to have awful results. You don&amp;#x27;t even know what the problem really is.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;I fear that many decentralised web projects are designed for censorship resistance not so much because they deliberately want to become hubs for neo-nazis, but rather out of a kind of naive utopian belief that more speech is always better. But I think we have learnt in the last decade that this is not the case.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;What you should have learned in the last decade is that social networks designed around virality, engagement and &amp;quot;influencing&amp;quot; are awful for the society in the long run. But somehow now the conversation has turned away from that and towards &amp;quot;better moderation&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Engage your brain. Read Marshall McLuhan. The design of a medium is far more important than how it is moderated.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crmrc114</author><text>&amp;quot;What you should have learned in the last decade is that social networks designed around virality, engagement and &amp;quot;influencing&amp;quot; are awful for the society in the long run.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Yes, and don&amp;#x27;t forget the 24 hour news cycle with its focus on getting outrage and attention through fear. I did not know who Marshall McLuhan was until now- thanks for the tip!</text></comment>
<story><title>Decentralised content moderation</title><url>https://martin.kleppmann.com/2021/01/13/decentralised-content-moderation.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colllectorof</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s pretty obvious that the tech crowd right now is so intoxicated by its own groupthink that these attempts to come up with &amp;quot;solutions&amp;quot; are going to have awful results. You don&amp;#x27;t even know what the problem really is.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;I fear that many decentralised web projects are designed for censorship resistance not so much because they deliberately want to become hubs for neo-nazis, but rather out of a kind of naive utopian belief that more speech is always better. But I think we have learnt in the last decade that this is not the case.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;What you should have learned in the last decade is that social networks designed around virality, engagement and &amp;quot;influencing&amp;quot; are awful for the society in the long run. But somehow now the conversation has turned away from that and towards &amp;quot;better moderation&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Engage your brain. Read Marshall McLuhan. The design of a medium is far more important than how it is moderated.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>timdaub</author><text>&amp;gt; The design of a medium is far more important than how it is moderated&lt;p&gt;IMO this is a great point. Social medias as they exist today are broken because they have been engineered on the assumption to make money on ads. Making money on ads works by engineering around virality, engagement and influencing.&lt;p&gt;Another thing that McLuhan teaches though is that actually the (social) media is the message. And ultimately this lead to a Viking dude standing in the US capitol.&lt;p&gt;Now, that whole situation was awful. But it was also hilarious.
In social media, this was barely a meme that lived on for a few hours. Whereas within the ancient system of democracy, an intrusion into the parlament is breaking some sacret rules. And there, surely the incident will cast long winding consequences.&lt;p&gt;To cut to the chase: Social media outcomes have to be viewed wearing a social media hat. Same for real-life. In this case, gladly. Another great case were this was true was Kony 2012, where essentially all the Slacktivism lead to nothing.</text></comment>