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> In the least it may result in viable alternatives to Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, and Google springing up. I'm looking forward to this. If smaller social netwo
by bmarquez 6y ago
> In the least it may result in viable alternatives to Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, and Google springing up.
I'm looking forward to this. If smaller social networks (or even federated networks) gain more traction due to this governmental shakeup, it will be harder to get censored as people can switch to the server that has the moderation style, or features (such as no ads but fees) they like.
There could be a silver lining in all this.
- rvz 6y agoYou would need a growing network effect to follow on to that alternative platform for it to be a true challenger to the mainstream social networks. Otherwise it will stay in the fringes of the internet. Although it is more difficult to censor a decentralised social network, attracting and migrating existing users from other social networks with a growing network effect on to a new platform is even harder.