You start to run into issues around stuff like CP. who gets the power to delete it? Who’s liable for storing it (legally) if it cascades to all the storage instances? No one? Everyone? What happens when someone abuses that delete power to start to steer discussions in their politically preferred direction? Who has the authority to monitor and regulate removal of those abusers? What if they themselves are abusers? Who watches the watchmen?
It’s a simple technical solution, but as with all things in life, the shitbag humans are the problem.
Same as right now, hosts use tools to clean up their servers if they don’t want to host it. You don’t back up everything on all the servers, you can just make sure all data is backed up twice so if one server shuts down there’s two backups, so you wouldn’t end up with all servers hosting malicious data.
The delete power abuse is much more of an issue at the moment since admins have complete control over their instance, with what I’m suggesting they can delete messages they don’t like from their servers, it’s backed up on other servers.
It gives more control and responsibilities to users by eliminating the admins from the equation altogether. No more instances, no more admins to decide that you can’t see the content from instances they don’t like, manage your own feed as you have access to the whole database.
You start to run into issues around stuff like CP. who gets the power to delete it? Who’s liable for storing it (legally) if it cascades to all the storage instances? No one? Everyone? What happens when someone abuses that delete power to start to steer discussions in their politically preferred direction? Who has the authority to monitor and regulate removal of those abusers? What if they themselves are abusers? Who watches the watchmen?
It’s a simple technical solution, but as with all things in life, the shitbag humans are the problem.
Same as right now, hosts use tools to clean up their servers if they don’t want to host it. You don’t back up everything on all the servers, you can just make sure all data is backed up twice so if one server shuts down there’s two backups, so you wouldn’t end up with all servers hosting malicious data.
The delete power abuse is much more of an issue at the moment since admins have complete control over their instance, with what I’m suggesting they can delete messages they don’t like from their servers, it’s backed up on other servers.
It gives more control and responsibilities to users by eliminating the admins from the equation altogether. No more instances, no more admins to decide that you can’t see the content from instances they don’t like, manage your own feed as you have access to the whole database.