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Decentralization is the only way to systemically fight social media disinformation


#Russia 's information warfare in the #US didn't stop after Trump was elected. And US social network giants have failed to address it in the last 4 years. Partly because they directly benefit from content engagement, partly because as centralized platforms with billions of users, they naturally offer a bigger incentive to spread misinformation than any effort they are willing to mount to fight it.

The real solution, of course, is breaking the system into human-sized parts, through #decentralization. Even the biggest english-speaking #Fediverse instance has only 400,000 users, which makes it a mediocre target for misinformation with no opportunity for paid reach towards the nearly 3 million #Fediverse users.

You too can join the Fediverse and reduce paid agitators' incentive: https://fediverse.party/en/fediverse/


Is there a way to have just one account in the #fediverse, instead of creating multiple accounts on #mastodon, #pixelfed, #peertube, #funkwhale servers? In other words, is there a way to decouple identity from content, now or in the future?


@Adam Clark @Hypolite Petovan As i started my #fediverse career on #mastodon , i'm all for "native reshare" as in "activity for a post" - atleast for ActivityPub-posts. The current "commented share" splits conversations cause it generates a separated comment thread which seems unintuitive and clumsy.

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