on how the last weeks have shifted the threat model for open social networks: from fighting platform decay to the threat of authoritarianism
It feels like the fediverse is more important than ever with all that’s going on.
Avoid dependence on app stores so if an app is removed from Play Store it doesn’t matter as much.
Increase privacy - closed groups.
It needs to be possible to move an instance to another domain if an old one is blocked/revoked.
You can not solve all issues of (authoritarian) society with pure technology. State actors have more funding for the hunt and development of new technology for (targeted) surpression. At a certain point instance admins of social networks can not hide.
They could probably shut down bluesky easier than the fediverse
censorship and the crackdown on political places has been taking place forever on liberal platforms
