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I agree that HN comments were completely and totally wrong to be onboard with banning Trump AND I also do not agree with banning Sci-Hub... but the solution is

I agree that HN comments were completely and totally wrong to be onboard with banning Trump AND I also do not agree with banning Sci-Hub... but the solution isn't screaming at Twitter. The solution is using our freedom of speech and expression to start creating and supporting other services. I know that's hard, but at least in your personal life, try to use ActivityPub services and encourage everyone else to do so. Set up a Mastodon and Pleroma server and give invites to all your friends. Now I have done this and on my personal server, like 20+ friends have created accounts and to day .. only one still uses them. It will take time, and really only you can take care of yourself. Also, long-from blog. Follow any friends that blog with and RSS reader. Encourage everyone else to use an RSS reader. Why the hell are we using Twitter when you can follow the blogs and news sites with RSS? You can see which news sites have new articles, rather that letting Facebook and Twitter decide the order and type of information your receive.

illustriousbear 6y ago
I agree mate, I've deleted all my social media and it has been great since day one. My consumption of information is so much better now that I have had to seek out reliable sources.
dredmorbius 6y ago
Twitter and Facebook and Youtube were argued as the alternatives to the previous generation of gatekeepers. Ungated media such as Usenet of various moderation-free zones online also fail. There's an inherent cconflict between complete freedom of access -- a sort of full-body local contact or intimacy, and and of distance, time, and/or scale. Distribution and scale presume a gating function somewhere. The only remaining question is what the channel biases for.