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Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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post #24

Note 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".

Post (https://post.news) is probably the closest to a well funded Twitter clone that I’ve seen. Very similar UX. Supposed to have more emphasis on publishers but that’s not very apparent yet in my feed there.

Right now I use sigmoid.social for tech stuff and Post for mainstream chatter.

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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post #19

"Thin-skinned narcissist buys criticism machine." This is not "free speech absolutism" in the slightest. It's not even business-savvy. Elon's mask has truly cracked, and he proves he is nothing but a febrile mind who has bought into his own hype.

Maybe they should try letting Kanye run it next.

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

#70

Ah damn, I hoped for a fair experiment to demonstrate absordity of total free speech, but istead we got bog standard hypocracy! Boo! If you are caught wondering why some people still support Elon - in 'true conservative' society, like Russia or Saudi states, hypocracy is means of demonstrating hierarchy. So as a leader, you show that you are dominant by demonstrating that rules don't apply to you. That makes you even…

Aw man! No one could have seen this coming!
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