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Just looking at this from a technical perspective, it'll be pretty exciting if all this ends up leading to an explosion in the take up of self-hosted social media platforms.

The question is, will the creators of these communities trust cloud providers where the platforms are hosted to not de-platform them, or will we end up with P2P, distributed networks instead?

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When you take you're tech to it's limit you get mailing lists, again.

Then email providers will kick out unapproved users, DNS will kick out unapproved email providers, and so on.

I want an anti-authoritarian internet. The past year has been surreal.

Until China, Japan and Russia unite to provide disenfranchised Americans with a free internet that is off-limits from the grabbing hands of the US elites.

And it will thrive and will be a better place to make more money that SV for 5-10 years, until it gets censored like any public space.

Including “China” and “free internet” in the same sentence is hilarious. Unless something like “will never tolerate” is in between them.

Are you seriously calling for China, of all countries, to create a network free of censorship?

It’ll have to be p2p maybe with super nodes to replicate.

You will want a data mesh layer that multiple apps run on top of probably.

> explosion in the take up of self-hosted social media platforms.

Network effects drive a lot of adoption of these things, which is a huge headwind against an "explosion" of them lasting that long.

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