Decentralized Social Media and the Great Twitter Exodus
It\u2019s Election Day in the United States\u2014so while you wait for the results to come in, why not listen to a podcast about the other biggest story obsessing the political commentariat right now? We\u2019re talking, of course, about Elon Musk\u2019s purchase of Twitter and the billionaire\u2019s dramatic and erratic changes to the platform. In response to Musk\u2019s takeover, a great number of Twitter users have made the leap to Mastodon, a decentralized platform that offers a very different vision of what social media could look like.
What exactly is decentralized social media, and how does it work? Lawfare senior editor Alan Rozenshtein has a paper on just that, and he sat down with Lawfare senior editor Quinta Jurecic on the podcast to discuss for an episode of our Arbiters of Truth series on the online information ecosystem. They were also joined by Kate Klonick, associate professor of law at St. John\u2019s University, to hash out the many, many questions about content moderation and the future of the internet sparked by Musk\u2019s reign and the new popularity of Mastodon.
Among the works mentioned in this episode:
- \u201cWelcome to hell, Elon. You break it, you buy it,\u201d by Nilay Patel on The Verge
- \u201cHey Elon: Let Me Help You Speed Run The Content Moderation Learning Curve,\u201d by Mike Masnick on Techdirt
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