Take for example email. Email was a decentralized system where you could connect to port 25 on any mail system anywhere and have it forward your mail to other systems, hold it cached for days or weeks if they were offline, and eventually get it to the recipient. Minds somebody with the data has to be online when you want it, so email was even way more decentralized than Minds.
Google has strong-armed changes so email can only be sent encrypted by whitelisted, certified servers and have forced most other companies to do the same. So now you effectively can't run your own email server on your own domain because nobody will talk to it.
So Minds could be even more vulnerable than Gab since it's probably a lot easier to turn a small group of developers than a single fanatic.
Take for example email. Email was a decentralized system where you could connect to port 25 on any mail system anywhere and have it forward your mail to other systems, hold it cached for days or weeks if they were offline, and eventually get it to the recipient. Minds somebody with the data has to be online when you want it, so email was even way more decentralized than Minds.
Google has strong-armed changes so email can only be sent encrypted by whitelisted, certified servers and have forced most other companies to do the same. So now you effectively can't run your own email server on your own domain because nobody will talk to it.
So Minds could be even more vulnerable than Gab since it's probably a lot easier to turn a small group of developers than a single fanatic.