The good news is that there are some straightforward opportunities for significant short-term safety improvements. If fediverse funders, developers, businesses, and “influencers” start prioritizing investing in safety, the fediverse can turn what’s currently a big weakness into a huge strategic advantage.
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It’s about people, not just the software and the protocol
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It’s also about the software
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And it’s about the protocol, too
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Threat modeling and privacy by design can play a big role here
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Design from the margins – and fund it!
Agreed that there isn’t one particular model that’s right or wrong for everybody, and that a split is likely – a region like today’s fedi and that welcomes Threads, and a more safety-focused region (with more blocking, a more consent-based federation).