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METRO Webinar: Goodbye Facebook, Hello Decentralized Social Media? Can Peer-to-Peer Lead to Less Toxic Online Platforms?

April 28, 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT

Facebook, Twitter… we’ve seen them go awry when faced with the scourges of misinformation and trolling. In authoritarian regimes, entire platforms are easily blocked. Would decentralized social media, where there is no central controlling entity, be better? How do you take down damaging posts when there is no central command center? We walk you through some of the top decentralized social media platforms, from Matrix to Twitter’s Blue Sky initiative. Demonstrations of how to get on some of these systems.

This event is part of a series of workshops presented by Metropolitan New York Library Council, Internet Archive, DWeb, and Library Futures. Learn more here: https://metro.org/decentralizedweb

Please review our Code of Conduct, our Statement on Viewpoints, and details on Interpreter Services here: https://metro.org/code-of-conduct

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Details

Date:
April 28, 2022
Time:
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT
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Website:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2jhG2yOvSCalJyyV7btp6w

Venue

Online Via Zoom
NY United States + Google Map