[–] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There is something like that called Plebbit, it's a good example of all the downsides of such a system.

It's decentralized and "censorship proof" AKA completely unmoderated with all the spamming and unsavory content one might expect. The CSAM issue is mostly avoided because it doesn't support any kind of media sharing (only plain text) due to the bandwidth for P2P connections and avoiding having to store that on the client. Last time I checked content also simply disappears when users disconnect.

The federated system is better because it's more efficient and scales better since only a couple hundred instances have to send/receive activity instead of hundred thousands of users individually. It also helps ensure content is moderated. Admins tend to keep their own instance clean and defederate from instances that don't.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 week ago

    Thanks for taking the time to share a direct watch video instead of linking to YouTube. Most shared content still points to YouTube (for valid reasons but still).

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    There is a system to identify frequent contributors, they used it to send mails for the KDE goals vote. I feel like if there was some sort of vote that it should probably use that to identify the votes of contributors.

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