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pseudonym_loving_magpie) wrote2018-12-09 09:18 am
pseudonym_loving_magpie) wrote2018-12-09 09:18 am
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I'm interested in how to make better social networks so I've been reading the post tumblr fandom community and made this comment: https://post-tumblr-fandom.dreamwidth.org/2135.html?thread=16215#cmt16215
You could have something that's administratively like a mastodon server, where the server owner can delete things from it if legally required, and process DMCA notifications, but part of the bandwidth for serving files from it would be provided by its members on a p2p basis. Since the server is a larger target and does DMCA stuff, the users are less likely to get in trouble (I'm not a lawyer and I don't know how much this would help). The members' computers serving files on behalf of the server would stop if the server blocked/deleted the file.
To avoid being a walled garden the servers could federate with servers in other countries, as they do with mastodon, but not serve files on behalf of the other server (the users can connect to the other servers directly)
People who don't want to have their posts controlled by someone else's server could run their own servers, so the server software should be made as easy to run as possible, and also there should be a way to back up your posts without running a server.
You could have something that's administratively like a mastodon server, where the server owner can delete things from it if legally required, and process DMCA notifications, but part of the bandwidth for serving files from it would be provided by its members on a p2p basis. Since the server is a larger target and does DMCA stuff, the users are less likely to get in trouble (I'm not a lawyer and I don't know how much this would help). The members' computers serving files on behalf of the server would stop if the server blocked/deleted the file.
To avoid being a walled garden the servers could federate with servers in other countries, as they do with mastodon, but not serve files on behalf of the other server (the users can connect to the other servers directly)
People who don't want to have their posts controlled by someone else's server could run their own servers, so the server software should be made as easy to run as possible, and also there should be a way to back up your posts without running a server.