#MastodonMedia Mar 4, 2023

The Fediverse has a vital inherent structural advantage. Alan Rozenshtein, U of Minn Law, calls it "content-moderation subsidiarity." Cory Doctorow expounds on this in:

@pluralistic: Solving the Moderator's Trilemma with Federation >>> https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/04/pick-all-three/#agonism

"The fact that users can leave a server and set up somewhere else means that when a user gets pissed off enough... they can simply choose another server that's part of the same federation."

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Pluralistic: Solving the Moderator’s Trilemma with Federation (04 Mar 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

#MastodonMedia Jan 24, 2023

@mmasnick expands on @pluralistic 's thought provoking treatise 'Tiktok's enshittification', laying blame on the imperative for maximizing near term shareholder value.

Techdirt: How The Friedman Doctrine Leads To The Enshittification Of All Things >>> https://www.techdirt.com/2023/01/24/how-the-friedman-doctrine-leads-to-the-enshittification-of-all-things/

"maximizing revenue in the short term... often means sacrificing long term sustainability and long term profits."

(Tiktok's enshittification >>> https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/)

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How The Friedman Doctrine Leads To The Enshittification Of All Things

We recently wrote about Cory Doctorow’s great article on how the “enshittification” of social media (mainly Facebook and Twitter) was helping to lower the “switching costs&#…

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