„Facebook’s use of “ethnic affinity” as a proxy for race is a prime example. The platform’s interface does not offer users a way to self-identify according to race, but advertisers can nonetheless target people based on Facebook’s ascription of an “affinity” along racial lines.“
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As Mastodon is growing, it becomes clear that many of the problems that we face in social media aren’t solved by simply replacing monolithic corporate-owned infrastructure with a decentralized one. That – it seems – was the easy part. The hard problems appear to be sociological. How do you protect an individual from an angry mob? How do you find out if the mob’s anger is justified or not? We can’t hope to answer these questions with technology.
As Mastodon is growing, it becomes clear that many of the problems that we face in social media aren't solved by simply replacing monolithic corporate-owned infrastructure with a decentralized one. That – it seems – was the easy part. The hard problems appear to be sociological. How do you protect an individual from an angry mob? How do you find out if the mob's anger is justified or not? We can't hope to answer these questions with technology.