Il va y avoir un effet intéressant à #Mastodon, si le succès continue : relancer les polémiques soulevées il y a 20 ans par les autorités concernant Usenet et les contenus illégaux ici ou là.

Depuis 15 ans les politiques font les gros yeux aux GAFA (légitimement) à cause de leur hégémonie, mais ceux-ci sont très faciles à gérer par les états, du fait même de leur centralisation poussée : une poignée d'interlocuteurs.

#Mastodon ça sera une autre paire de manches.

Préparez les mouchoirs.

@pb I wonder which instance will be the first to descend into anarchy, get de-federated and turn into a hidey-hole of the dark web.

If you can't run ads, you can't afford to hire a team of admins to police it. Instances will have to have some kind of volunteer moderators.

@ZDP189 I see at least one future direction which one could avoid that: 1 instance per person (or family/small group). Administering Mastodon would be very much like handing texting on your phone.

@pb

That's possible.

Certainly, Mastodon has more potential for abuse than any other social network I've seen.

On the plus side, the structure makes it very hard to throttle free speech. Instances sprout like mushrooms in the autumn. Government firewalls would have a hell of a job blocking them all and any one they miss would act like a tunnel for the global federated timeline to pour through.

@ZDP189 in many ways it compares to Usenet. Very similar problems.