Notices by Mark Allerton (markallerton@mastodon.cloud)

@bynkii @sophieschmieg @evan @ks @tess @mekkaokereke it’s the same libertarian ethos that drives cryptocurrency - the automatic assumption that it’s bad to have government involved in regulating some activity. We are seeing how well that is working out in the crypto space.

@bynkii @sophieschmieg @evan @tess @ks @mekkaokereke my personal view is that a federated network would be good for preventing a Twitter style disaster where one guy walks in and destroys the place, but there’s nothing wrong with the components of that federation being large, and having some regulation involved - and that Mastodon will probably evolve in that way if it is to survive.

@evan @ks I think you are exactly right about where this ends up (large, regulated players) in the absence of some counteracting forces - but “social and cultural mechanisms” seems incredibly vague. Is there any precedent that shows communities can self-organize out of network effects rather than fall prey to them?