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iamtanmay@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

I have many thoughts on this, but haven't been able to write it down.

I don't think you are wrong. I thought about this for several years, specifically Wikipedia. A democratic platform to share knowledge became a propaganda piece in just 10 years.

What happened to Wikipedia could happen to every alt tech platform that becomes too big. If we do not understand the mechanism and have anti-corruption from the grassroots, we will never be free of corrupt big platforms.

The Problem: How did it happen ? On Wikipedia on every controversial page, e.g. Project Veritas or AntiVax doctors like Robert Malone, several editors try to balance the extreme left and make the articles objective. But they are outnumbered by more active Leftists......

Why ? Most Lefty activists are sponsored by Diversity Initiatives, where govts and Big companies pay millions to create "Equity". E.g. Google spent 100s of millions into the extreme Left Vox media or the Young Turks, and similar extreme left propaganda platforms. They can freeload on this $$ and do full time activism.

On the right and center, there are no such sponsorships to pay good editors. The rational editors on Wikipedia have day jobs and families. They can't spend all day fighting these nuts. This is how everything from journalism to big tech to Wikipedia is corrupted.

Possible Solutions: Make it easier for general public to make a change. On Wikipedia the edits of a new user can be trashed by long time activists and you can be banned just like other censorship platforms. If new users had same amount of power as long time ones, and could not be banned, gate keeping would end.... very fast.

Every Astroturf, be it Soros/Gates/Google sponsored DEI, Russian troll farms, Chinese 5 cent army, can be outnumbered by real users, if there are no "Gatekeepers"

That is my proposal to solve corruption of platforms -> more democracy and free speech.

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