Given GME, WallStreetBets – are there any uncensorable social platforms?

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Given Discords banning of the WallStreetBets server, Robinhood disabling customer accounts, a likely inevitable reigning or banning of r/WallStreetBets, plus what happened to Parler earlier this month, it's clear there's a need for uncensorable social media (which doesn't necessarily mean unmoderated), free from App Stores, AWS, DNS or otherwise.While platforms like Diaspora and Mastodon have existed for a while, is there any place that could act as a viable and uncensorable alternative to r/WallStreetBets? That implies scalability, the possibility for "network effects" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect), a UX that "non nerds" could handle and probably more.What do you think are the promising technologies and platforms that could become viable alternatives?

mr-wendel · Accepted Answer

I'm going to argue no. I wish I could find the HN commentator who said what I've long thought better than I ever could... it was on a cryptocurrency thread, naturally.
Such a thing will always have some kind of "emissions" or way of differentiating it. Oh, there will be layers of obfuscation, redundancy, and such. But the bottom line is (and especially to be scalable, have "network effects", be non-nerd accessible) by having an identity... you can be identified.
From there, it's all about power and control and that "might makes right". Nothing more than the use of language is required to censor. It can always be outlawed and even if it's hard to find, hard to prove. If it really matters "they" will find a way, however arcane or mundane.
Not saying it's a futile effort. Just that "power" can always find a way to put its boot down to stop a thing it feels threatened by until the concept of power itself is what is at stake.

iratei · Answer

I can think of three which are front ends for the HIVE blockchain;https://d.buzz/ https://hive.blog/ https://peakd.com/

bitxbitxbitcoin · Answer

Sci-hub recently freed themselves from DNS based censorship - I imagine any successful uncensorable social media platform would need to follow the same steps.