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Already pointed out by others, but I think you might be underestimating just how much the issue comes from Twitter (et al.) being a platform : giant, centralize

• raydiatian 4y ago
  The problem with social networks has never been the architecture. A walled garden never did anything wrong. It’s the sociopath that hangout inside the walled garden that make it a problem. If the sociopaths leave this one for another walled garden, this one becomes progressively more pleasant.
  • BlueTemplar 4y ago
    Hmm, well I guess that platforms would indeed be much less of a problem in a draconian antitrust system regularly shutting down the biggest ones (in a way forums are walled gardens with intrinsic limits to growth - the software on which they operate isn't closed though !), but in our world these aspect tend to strengthen each other... Also, this is like with dictatorships : yes, you can get lucky with an enlightened despot, but even those don't last long, and it becomes difficult to deal with a too entrenched power once it turns ugly.