If you just decentralize only the physical hosting part how would you handle responsibilities such as moderation and other key decisions? If there’s one central instance deciding on what to allow and what to block or on topics such as advertising, trackers etc., wouldn’t Lemmy end up with similar issues as Reddit and other traditional social media websites?
Moderation would work the same way it does right now, admins aren’t moderators.
An admin doesn’t want to host content from community X? They just block it from their server, it doesn’t matter, it’s hosted on two other servers and they’ll take care of sending the data to a third one.
Donations would be easy to automate via crypto, your public key would be part of the code, donation goes to the community and is split between the hosting servers.
If you just decentralize only the physical hosting part how would you handle responsibilities such as moderation and other key decisions? If there’s one central instance deciding on what to allow and what to block or on topics such as advertising, trackers etc., wouldn’t Lemmy end up with similar issues as Reddit and other traditional social media websites?
It doesn’t require a central authority.
Moderation would work the same way it does right now, admins aren’t moderators.
An admin doesn’t want to host content from community X? They just block it from their server, it doesn’t matter, it’s hosted on two other servers and they’ll take care of sending the data to a third one.
Donations would be easy to automate via crypto, your public key would be part of the code, donation goes to the community and is split between the hosting servers.