Similarly, in a normal conference you attend the talks in person & get people’s contact info to talk to them afterwards.
But now that all talks are recorded, you can flip the conference. All talks are posted online and watched at your leisure, while in-person is for discussion.
Public is online, private is encrypted.
That is, if you give a public talk, you should probably do the effort to post it online. Largest possible audience, and people can consume it at their leisure.
Conversely, if you are speaking privately, better be end-to-end encrypted.
This is another possible outcome: rather than Twitter decentralizing because it becomes a protocol, Twitter decentralizes because of unbundling and defection.
Quite possible we see more left-wing Gabs, Parlers, and Truth Socials arise, like Tribel.
Personally, I’m more bullish on tech-focused communities like @farcaster_xyz and pseudonymous communities like @poasterapp than I am on communities born mainly out of political warfare.
Does the community have a positive mission, or just a negation?
In my view, this is a win for the world even if not a win for Twitter.
There wouldn’t be one central forum anymore that the US establishment can just censor with a keystroke. There’s less mimesis, more innovation.
And…more chaos. Then we gradually, consensually recentralize.
Remember, the Ochs-Sulzbergers profited from covering up the Holodomor when it was happening — the intentional starvation of millions of Ukrainians by Stalin.
They won a Pulitzer Prize for lying about a genocide.
And they've admitted it. archive.ph/gzlZs
The fact that the Ochs-Sulzbergers have now reinvented themselves as cheerleaders for Ukraine (!) after literally abetting the Holodomor is like Julius Streicher turning himself into a champion of Israel.