Spanish PM Calls to End Social Media Anonymity, Force Digital ID: WEF
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At the WEF, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez calls for the end of anonymity on social media by forcing them to link all user accounts with the European digital identity wallet.
  • MithranArkanere ( MithranArkanere@lemmy.ml ) 
    9·
    2 years ago

    Individual privacy cannot be infringed. The measures against corporations are a good idea. The rest are only good for official accounts so public officials cannot be impersonated. For private individuals, accountability only needs to happen when they enact violence.

    • smiletolerantly ( smiletolerantly@awful.systems ) 
      13·
      2 years ago

      I have been scrolling on the front page for a couple of minutes now, and I was going to write that it’s literally all conspiracy theories, but that’s not true, there’s also some “sponsored” posts AKA ads sprinkled in.

      What a sad joke.

      If you think the fediverse is too centralized, you can always host your own instance. You get all the same “free speech” benefits (plus no free-speech ban on drugs and porn), without having to put one foot into that cesspit of a site.

      Edit: oh, and that has to be the worst moderation system ever devised - at least if you are a woman or any kind of minority. Good fucking luck in finding a random jury of users who will ever, ever ban a racist or sexist piece of shit on a platform like this. Come to think of it, that’s probably the idea and justification behind the system: being able to loudly proclaim “we have a democratized ban system ensuring moderator overreach is impossible!” does make a great dogwhistle for “you can be a terrible human on here, don’t worry”

      • CashDragon ( CashDragon@realbitcoin.cash ) 
        2·
        2 years ago

        Maybe it’s not for you, no one is forcing you to use it, it is not all about you.

        A woman protesting an oppressive regime with her posts may find it is the only safe place without getting her identity reported back to the oppressive state as all corporate owned platforms would do.

      • CashDragon ( CashDragon@realbitcoin.cash ) 
        3·
        2 years ago

        It is a place of free speech. The only rules are, no porn, drugs, or threats. You can block users if you want.

        The point is that it is not owned by any corporation and it is run by a network of nodes which are not easily shut down.

          • CashDragon ( CashDragon@realbitcoin.cash ) 
            3·
            2 years ago

            Mastodon is only federated, this means your account is owned by the instance owner and can be banned. Bastyon is decentralized meaning there is no owner, your content can be blocked if there is a report and a random jury of high reputation users unanimously agrees that rules have been violated.

      • CashDragon ( CashDragon@realbitcoin.cash ) 
        1·
        2 years ago

        No, it is not. Mastodon is federated, this means your account is owned by the instance owner and can be banned. Bastyon is decentralized meaning there is no owner, your content can be blocked if there is a report and a random jury of high reputation users unanimously agrees that rules have been violated.

        • Allero ( Allero@lemmy.today ) 
          5·
          2 years ago

          Reading more about it, I see it’s based on a blockchain, with Pocketcoin token serving as a currency to incentivise node operators.

          So, do I understand it right that every action and piece of media is distributed around all nodes, which are incentivised by crypto to keep going? And that user doesn’t normally operate a node per se, but has an account, similar to a crypto wallet, on this blockchain? Also, do node maintainer rewards come from users or the emission pool?

          For now it looks to me like a terribly scalable and wasteful system with potential for monetary enshittification. Also, financing is unclear: if it’s on users, barely anyone is gonna pay for everything they publish. If it comes from the pool, even if it is diminishing like with Bitcoin, what would generate demand for the token? Governance?

          But I might not see everything

          • CashDragon ( CashDragon@realbitcoin.cash ) 
            1·
            2 years ago

            Good job looking into it a bit instead of freaking out like most others on here. It is running and working and has been for over 6 years if I am not mistaken, it was named pocketnet previously.

            Users do not have to pay to publish. Advertisers can pay to boost content and get visibility. There are many people dedicated to free speech and anti-censorship so they will continue to run nodes even if they are not turning a profit. At this point nodes stake coins and earn rewards, not sure of the long term tokenomics, have not gone super deep on it.

            • Allero ( Allero@lemmy.today ) 
              1·
              2 years ago

              Fedi is mostly hostile to the idea of crypto, which is why such projects are commonly a no-go for this audience.

              6 years is a fairly long run, so I hope tokenomics was somehow figured out.

              Advertising is something commonly rejected; I too see this as a strong negative. Paid boosting of genuine content is not great, but I’ll take it.

              Question: what advantages does it have over hosting your own fedi server? Anonymity? Not having to invest in hosting to get more control? Not having to build federated connections and rediscover communities?

  • FriendBesto ( FriendBesto@lemmy.ml ) 
    1·
    2 years ago

    Yeah, saw him making the point at his presentation at the WEF’s Davos a little while ago. WEF doing WEF things. It blows my mind that despite so many people who think the WEF’s weird technocratic dystopia wetdreams are some weird conspiracy, all you have to do to see what they are all about and how true it all is, is to go through their site, reading between the lines of their white papers and past their creep, overly positive marketing and slogans, or watch their YT channel.