Can't wait to see how the Elon lackeys - Marc, Lex, and Jason etc. going to bend over backwards defending this.
Promotion of alternative social platforms policy
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#42Seems reasonable. Let's all remember the spirit of '20, everyone: Twitter is a private company, if you don't like it build your own twitter!
They did, and it is called mastodon.
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#43Weird , this almost sounds like a parody... Some sort of a "contract" between a spouse caught cheating and a bat-shit partner preventing them from seeing any other person ever.
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#44Note that Mastodon is third in the list. I consider that a success. 1. They ignore you. 2. They laugh at you. 3. They fight you. <<<--- we are here. 4. You win.
I mean, what a great way to find out about alternatives. I'd never heard of "Post" and "Nostr".
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#45This is just pathetic. He’s acting like a jealous high school boyfriend.
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#46It seems there might be a market for a social media directory service that can use some kind of signed message authentication to enable folks to link their media identies in a somewhat neutral way. I have not talent or ambition to build such a thing, but I figure it would probably be good thing. Or it already exists?
It exists, it's a website with a "Contact" page.
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#47Seems reasonable. Let's all remember the spirit of '20, everyone: Twitter is a private company, if you don't like it build your own twitter!
Yes now we are finally at the point where the “free speech absolutism” stuff is dropped and we can have an honest discussion about why linking to a Facebook profile is somehow more objectionable than posting transphobic content.
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#48Seems reasonable. Let's all remember the spirit of '20, everyone: Twitter is a private company, if you don't like it build your own twitter!
It's his business, but that doesn't necessarily rationalize it. Jack Dorsey's Twitter, for as oblivious and misguided as it was, didn't stop people from connecting on other sites. This is a top-down decision to lock everyone in the Hellsite, and I'm pretty sure this will be the tipping point for most average users.
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#49(from another thread) Any attorneys want to weigh in on whether - or when - this becomes an anti-competitive/anti-trust concern, either in the US (FTC) or the EU?
Related reading:
* Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) Article 102, on abusive conduct by companies that have a dominant position in a market: https://competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/antitrust/procedures... . Any EU resident can file a complaint.
* FTC's guidelines for firms with market power: https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/anticompetitive-practices, https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/gui...
* "Antitrust and Social Networking" (2012): https://lawecommons.luc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1188... (PDF)
Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy
#50It seems there might be a market for a social media directory service that can use some kind of signed message authentication to enable folks to link their media identies in a somewhat neutral way. I have not talent or ambition to build such a thing, but I figure it would probably be good thing. Or it already exists?
Are you aware of Keybase? People use it exactly for that.
Example: https://keybase.io/robpike