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TL;DR: In decentralized applications (of which Poal is not, but the future of the internet is decentralized) each individual using the application must decide, for themselves, who they want to receive content from, and who not to. This is censorship resistant because there isn't a central arbiter who is deciding what you can and cannot see; everyone has to make that choice on their own.

ie, if you don't like Poal giving you the ability to block faggots, then you're gonna have a hard time adjusting to the decentralized web.

edit: faggot

TL;DR: In decentralized applications (of which Poal is not, but the future of the internet is decentralized) each individual using the application must decide, *for themselves*, who they want to receive content from, and who not to. This is censorship resistant because there isn't a central arbiter who is deciding what you can and cannot see; everyone has to make that choice on their own. ie, if you don't like Poal giving you the ability to block faggots, then you're gonna have a hard time adjusting to the decentralized web. edit: faggot

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You don't seem to understand how WoT and concepts like it operate. You get to make the choice for yourself what you see. Of course it's not perfect.

And yes, I believe the future of the internet is decentralized. Big tech is moving to more centralized solutions, of course. But the exponential increase in computing resource and the inverse relationship to cost has lead to a massive amount of computing resources that are just "lying around". As this excess resource supply increases, it improves the feasibility of decentralized tech.

It's not just a matter of resisting censorship. You can run decentralized applications today, like a marketplace, social media, video sharing, etc. When everyone contributes their own computing power to the application, you (the dev) can run huge applications on a near $0 budget. In addition, it makes it very hard for some entity (like the government) to come in and regulate how the application operates.

It's too useful a technology to just sit in the background forever.