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It absolutely is an option! There are open source social media projects out there that you can fork and start hosting today, if you want. Or you can use one of
by heyitsguay 5y ago
It absolutely is an option! There are open source social media projects out there that you can fork and start hosting today, if you want. Or you can use one of the existing alternatives. It's just that not many people use them right now, because Big Tech "censorship" has done a pretty good (definitely not perfect) job of just targeting bad actors. If a large non-toxic chunk of the population starts getting banned, non-toxic alternative platforms will become viable for the network effects that power social media centralization. Until then, the alternatives will look like Voat and Gab, and it seems like the online public doesn't love platforms that are dominated by the toxic castoffs from more mainstream platforms.
- krapp 5y ago>If a large non-toxic chunk of the population starts getting banned, non-toxic alternative platforms will become viable for the network effects that power social media centralization. Case in point: a number of Youtubers fed up with the platform demonetizing and delisting their content are advertising their content on other video platforms, or just hosting their own like Corridor Digital. The web is one of the few examples of the free market actually working, but people have fallen for the defeatist and nihilistic narrative about the "centralization" of the web and "control" by sinister forces, insisting that competition with any big platform is simply impossible. They said that about MySpace too and look what happened.