If you havent noticed, the major issues of today is not the scaling of message passing per-se but the moderation of content and violations of the boundary between public and private.
Are those the major issues of today? Those are the major issues for censors, not for communicators.
yes, moderation is an issue that doesn't scale. therefore, many technologists ignore it in favor of "oh, fancy serverless architecture". priority should be on building moderation and tools like reply controls (e.g. only mutuals), shared inboxes (for friends to assist cleaning out hate mail), mod appeals and the like. It's a thorny issue that involves /listening/ to community organizers, who go through pains with poorly written software to try to keep a community civil.
Are spammers and scammers "communicators"? How about organized misinformation campaigns? In what kind of deeply sick ideological la-la-land is any kind of control of information flow "censorship".
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Are those the major issues of today? Those are the major issues for censors, not for communicators.
yes, moderation is an issue that doesn't scale. therefore, many technologists ignore it in favor of "oh, fancy serverless architecture". priority should be on building moderation and tools like reply controls (e.g. only mutuals), shared inboxes (for friends to assist cleaning out hate mail), mod appeals and the like. It's a thorny issue that involves /listening/ to community organizers, who go through pains with poorly written software to try to keep a community civil.
Are spammers and scammers "communicators"? How about organized misinformation campaigns? In what kind of deeply sick ideological la-la-land is any kind of control of information flow "censorship".