🌇 The summer of decentralized social.
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- A protocol is a sort of shared “public good” — a bit of underlying infrastructure that can be built upon by other public and private entities. Around New_Public, we like to think about protocols as analogous to the system of roads and sidewalks that people use to go from the park to the supermarket, or from our houses to the library. (View Highlight)
- Things are generally moving more towards individual end-user control - but because asking every single person to do all of their own moderation puts way too much of a burden on people, there are new mechanisms emerging. Imagine being able to subscribe to a “block” list that’s run by some organization you personally trust (a non-profit, a government agency, a community, a group of your friends, etc.). Many of the protocol creators & communities are thinking along these lines - people like Blaine and Darius Kazemi have written about this, and this proposal from the Nostr world explores the idea of sharing moderator reports among peers. (View Highlight)