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@BeAware I’m not so familiar with her because I personally haven’t spoken to her. But it strikes me that the Fediverse itself has an internal conflict that has not been addressed.

One one hand, we need safe spaces where people are protected from harm. On the other hand, we need spaces that are both censorship resistant and redundant. The problem is, one person’s safety is another person’s censorship; and another person’s free speech may also cause harm.

Now the only way to allow these two things to happen is to allow for pluralism, and to stop seeing the #Fediverse as a singular space. This is one reason why I now prefer the term #SocialWeb for what I want to be built because what’s at heart here is that when you build an ActivityPub-enabled service, you are not necessarily building for one singular space.