>But those are all technical solutions to the problem of a missing platform; focusing there misses the point that what will really be missing is a community spa

>But those are all technical solutions to the problem of a missing platform; focusing there misses the point that what will really be missing is a community space. The answer to that is more community spaces, each with their own governance and interaction models. The solution will be an ecosystem of loosely-joined communities, not a single software platform or website - and certainly not a service run by a single company. Please. Please please please. See the world as it is, not as you would want it to be. Where is the track record of decentralized communities? I think the closest you can get is torrents which themselves really centralized around tracker websites (Pirate Bay etc). Facebook bought itself life by buying another centralized platform- Instagram. it's now losing to an even more concerning centralized platform Tiktok. People are not making libertarian choices on the internet and they never have. Consumer demand has always contradicted libertarians on the internet. Twitter never succeeded because it fostered diverse communities, it succeeded because it provided one place for them to fight. Let Ethan Klein fight with Ben Shapiro that is what drives Twitter.