Ex-US President Donald Trump announces social media site
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#2This is amusing, given that the Soviet newspaper was Pravda, or "Truth"
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#3apparently they used open source mastodon[0].
the fediverse[1] is about to get "interesting".
its like that scene from a Western movie where a bunch of black-dressed men ride towards a serene bucolic ranch and the family inside looks through the window with a sense of foreboding
Re: Ex-US President Donald Trump announces social media site
#4> HL Mencken once said that “the trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.” There’s an unfortunate corollary to this, which is that if you try to create a libertarian paradise, you will attract three deeply virtuous people with a strong committment to the principle of universal freedom, plus millions of scoundrels.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/07/22/freedom-on-the-central...
Re: Ex-US President Donald Trump announces social media site
#5Isn't this the second attempt at this sort of thing for Trump?
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#6Going to be hard to run a social media site from prison. But seriously, I'm surprised it's October and he hasn't felt a single consequence to his many actions.
But back on topic. If he's trying to say that his platform won't cancel people, what happens when the Taliban do sign up, or it's flooded with left leaning users?
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#7I'd be scared to work for a company under the man's control with all the news articles about him stiffing others on payment, but it will be interesting to see if conservative tech workers who complain about being in the minority will flock to build his effort
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#8Going to be hard to run a social media site from prison. But seriously, I'm surprised it's October and he hasn't felt a single consequence to his many actions. But back on topic. If he's trying to say that his platform won't cancel people, what happens when the Taliban do sign up, or it's flooded with left leaning users?
Same thing that happens to them all other right wing apps and forums - they get banned.
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#9apparently they used open source mastodon[0]. the fediverse[1] is about to get "interesting". its like that scene from a Western movie where a bunch of black-dressed men ride towards a serene bucolic ranch and the family inside looks through the window with a sense of foreboding [0] https://joinmastodon.org/ [1] https://fediverse.party/
I've been hoping for celebrities to give Mastodon a shot after all of the racist spam proliferating in Facebook/Insta, but I'll admit this isn't quite what I had in mind. Do you have any more information on their decision to use Mastodon?
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#10Going to be hard to run a social media site from prison. But seriously, I'm surprised it's October and he hasn't felt a single consequence to his many actions. But back on topic. If he's trying to say that his platform won't cancel people, what happens when the Taliban do sign up, or it's flooded with left leaning users?
This will be moderated by Trump and he will call them a synonym for unruly and boot, I imagine