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Michael Folkson

@Gargron @verretor Have you talked anywhere publicly about your approach to censorship @gargron? I listened to your interview on SE Daily. Of course the repo can be forked if your approach to censorship doesn't align with a community's. I'm not entirely sure what happened with Gab though.

12 Jan 2021 at 11:44 | Open on bitcoinhackers.org
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Eugen Rochko

@michaelfolkson @verretor My approach to censorship is that I literally don't have any power. I write code, you either use it or you don't or you fork it. The power resides with whoever runs your Mastodon server. I only run mastodon.social and mastodon.online.

12 Jan 2021 at 11:46 | Open on mastodon.social
Michael Folkson

@Gargron @verretor Thanks for the response. That is what I understood too. But what happened in the specific case of Gab? What was the problem there?

12 Jan 2021 at 11:48 | Open on bitcoinhackers.org
kekcoin

@michaelfolkson @Gargron @verretor The example with Gab proves that even if developers of apps implement hardcoded blocklists for instances, working around that is a simple fork away. I don't think you can prove censorship resistance more thoroughly than that.

12 Jan 2021 at 11:55 | Open on bitcoinhackers.org
Michael Folkson

@kekcoin @Gargron @verretor Right, I guess I'm interested in why Gab defederated itself. It looks like they just didn't want people accessing Gab via Mastodon for some reason bitcoinhackers.org/@lukedashjr

12 Jan 2021 at 11:58 | Open on bitcoinhackers.org
Eugen Rochko

@michaelfolkson @kekcoin @verretor They turned federation off because they got made fun of by the fediverse, from both left and right corners. That's my understanding of it.

12 Jan 2021 at 12:02 | Open on mastodon.social
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