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   Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 02-Dec-2024 05:47:41 JST Evan Prodromou

   "A dictatorship is a centralized information network, lacking strong self-correcting mechanisms.

   "A democracy, in contrast, is a distributed information network, possessing strong self-correcting mechanisms."

   Yuval Noah Harari, "Nexus", 2024

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 02-Dec-2024 06:09:26 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Tassoman

     @tassoman really? Seems pretty distributed to me.

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     Tassoman (tassoman@orwell.fun)'s status on Monday, 02-Dec-2024 06:09:28 JST Tassoman

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     Well, there's nothing more dictatorial than "defederate instance button"
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     John Francis 🦫🇨🇦🍁💪⬆️ (johnefrancis@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 02-Dec-2024 11:11:18 JST John Francis 🦫🇨🇦🍁💪⬆️

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     @evan 🤔🤷♂️

     what are the self-correcting mechanisms?

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 02-Dec-2024 12:26:15 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • John Francis 🦫🇨🇦🍁💪⬆️

     @johnefrancis courts, journalism, elections, norms. You should read the book!