AnilI am trying to talk less about social media drama on here, but I will say it is sort of my personal hell to have spent roughly two decades thinking deeply about decentralized social media, content moderation policy, managing bad-faith actors, systematic online abuse, and the role of journalists in the architecture of generative online platforms, and see a broad public discussion going on where the loudest voices are all approaching this with “I don’t know much, but here’s my first thought!”
Like, I’m far from the only one, but credentials at a minimum? Has run a platform with millions of users that has no fascist presence, has been doxxed/stalked by the currently-active bad actors in the mainstream ecosystem, understands the role of policy (including global policy) in impacting network design, knows both non-profit and VC-backed economics, has been a working writer at a mainstream media outlet, has deep visibility into current coding practice & culture. And… didn’t go to Stanford?
חנן כהן • Hanan CohenI know you from back then and I am on Mastodon from April 2017 and feel that your ideas are alive here.