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Dave Hayes tried to create a True Free Speech platform using Usenet back in the '90s. That was when you had to convince the people running the main Usenet nodes that your stuff was worth carrying. He didn't.

That's an aspect of Usenet I wish we still had.
 
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Dave Hayes tried to create a True Free Speech platform using Usenet back in the '90s. That was when you had to convince the people running the main Usenet nodes that your stuff was worth carrying. He didn't.

That's an aspect of Usenet I wish we still had.
I know of a number of attempts at forming "true free speech" platforms and they all fail.... if nothing else, being overrun with literal neo nazies and pedophiles will scary away all the normal users....
 

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I hope the pendulum swings back tonthings like Mastodon amd self hosted web sites, but Indoubt it since the powers that be decided that a bunch of Techno Communists doing shit for free because they enjoyed it is bad for business and SEOed them out of existence.
 

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There's no such thing as "true free speech". Someone is always going to want to shut someone else up. Because human.
 
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True Free Speech in capitals like that was his Trademark Phrase. Whatever it meant.
 
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Elon wanted to remind everyone that being a pathetic manchild doesn't stop you from getting rich:


Like... Gates isn't perfect, but still takes shits with more class than Elon.
 
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Twitter's board of directors is reportedly on the verge of accepting Elon Musk's offer to buy the company, according to news reports.

"Twitter is poised to agree a sale to Elon Musk for around $43 billion in cash" and "may announce the $54.20-per-share deal later on Monday once its board has met to recommend the transaction to Twitter shareholders," Reuters wrote in a story with the headline, "Twitter set to accept Musk's original $43 billion offer." Reuters cited "people familiar with the matter."
 
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Well, seems like this may be happening.

I am over here if it does.

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I had a Mastodon account through Switter.at, which went belly up in March.

Oh well. freebie@mastodon.lol

EDIT: I hope the slowness of the site is due to a sudden increase in membership.
 
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I had a Mastodon account through Switter.at, which went belly up in March.

Oh well. freebie@mastodon.lol

EDIT: I hope the slowness of the site is due to a sudden increase in membership.
Yeah, I had one somewhere but it was gone last I checked. It seems like there is a big influx of people killing the servers for various instances.

My one complaint is that discoverability for people to follow is really rough. I may see if there is some sort of directory of profiles somewhere later, even if its on a per instance basis. This is not helped by how slow it all is right now.
 

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He is absolutely going to let Trump back on it. Trump is going to get his biggest bullhorn back just in time for the midterms and it will affect the 2024 election AGAIN. Even reputable news organizations report his insanity filled tweets, thus spreading them further. Count on Russian disinformation being given a big pass, as well.

Twitter banning Trump was heaven sent. It has been so nice not hearing about his daily rants. We live in times where non-taxpaying billionaires can flat out buy elections, politicians and media with which to swing elections.
 

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Looks like the purchase went through.



Uh, no. That is not what free speech means, Elon. But you go ahead and make it about you.
 

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He is absolutely going to let Trump back on it. Trump is going to get his biggest bullhorn back just in time for the midterms and it will affect the 2024 election AGAIN. Even reputable news organizations report his insanity filled tweets, thus spreading them further. Count on Russian disinformation being given a big pass, as well.

Twitter banning Trump was heaven sent. It has been so nice not hearing about his daily rants. We live in times where non-taxpaying billionaires can flat out buy elections, politicians and media with which to swing elections.
I was never a big Twitterer, but I don't think Elon can actually manage Twitter well. His biggest companies are all vapor. Tesla isn't a car company, it's a carbon credit speculation operation. Space X loses so much money, Elon refers to it as philanthropy. So I have about as much optimism for Twitter as I do for Netflix. By the end of the year, they will both be insolvent, or well on their way to it. If you want to stop Trump from campaigning with the power of Twitter, I think selling the platform to Musk is a great way to do it. By next year, it will be a shadow of what it was back in 2016. In 2024, Trump will be just another has-been, trying to use the equivalent of My Space to rant about nasty women and bad hombres. Nobody will care. Younger fascists like DeSantis will walk all over Trump. Probably walk all over Biden, too, but nobody here wants to hear that rant from me again, LOL.
 

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We live in the worst possible timeline. I want back in the old one.