Originally posted by Dave in #brainstorms on Slack.
Hacker News thread. It’s cool to see other people discussing the problem we’re working on.
Subthreads:
Locality/distance (non-global communication) in reducing spam
Amusingly, what does work is Second Life. Space keeps everything from being in the same place. You can shout at most 100 meters, and the 3D world is the size of Los Angeles. There’s no broadcast system built in. Jerks are a local problem. Local landowners can kick people off their land. Spam consists of buying small land parcels and putting up billboards, and is rarely profitable. Influencers have small circles of influence. Everything is local.
If it’s hard for one person to reach large numbers of people at low cost, moderation becomes far less of a problem. This is alien to the concept of social networks of course. It does raise the question, do you need to give everybody a bullhorn?