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Cake day: June 1st, 2023

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  • it is very concerning that the tech companies could deny a business access to their platforms without proving their case in front of a neutral 3rd party, without offering their target a chance to defend themselves

    This is a ludicrous position. He/infowars broke their ToC so they acted accordingly. If anything, they were incredibly lenient in not banning all the accounts prior to when they did.

    You’ve also alluded that there’s some kind of conspiracy against Jones by those companies…

    by simultaneously banning it from all their problems (I guess you meant ‘platforms’) at once.

    By using Hanlons Razor, I would posit that they acted at the last moment before it would blow back on them. The controversy surrounding the guy/company would have generated traffic/clicks/revenue and they wouldn’t cut that off unless there were something that would negatively impact their future revenue.

    No company acts out of others interests unless it has some effect on their own, thinking otherwise is just naive.







  • And don’t come to me with the “but shares are not money”.

    WTF are you on about? Where did I even alude to even suggesting that? Sounds like you’re really desperate to simp for him.

    His companies are notoriously overvalued (so his shares in a practical sense are worth shit) and he is massively over leveraged so those who devise those wealth chart tables are chatting shit.

    The real wealthy are incredibly private about their worth whereas boastful egotists like musk are all show no substance









  • But it’s not about replicating what Reddit was about, then or now. It’s about getting back to what we had before the centralisation of the net but with the lessons learnt. To build a more egalitarian platform without the necessity to drive engagement at whatever cost.

    We don’t need to, nor should look to set up tooling with what we learnt from Reddits failures. We’re building a new, better experience of the web and we definitely shouldn’t be looking to just migrate the user base from one site to a bunch of federated servers. We need people to definitely experience a cultural cleanse. Not to just have an exodus from there with all the bad habits and aggressions. We know where that path leads.

    We are on the cusp of a potential paradigm shift of the internet and we can shape what it becomes!

    Exciting times!



  • It’s going to be the same when people bailed Digg.

    They all complained about the interface and lack of features but then spent all their time pasting ascii images comments and starting pun threads.

    I would rather there be a slow decline in Twitter & Reddit than a mass exodus. An immediate consequence is the loss of signal to noise ratio and that would be too much to take for a second time!

    [Apologies for the double post - liftoff indicated that it had failed to post both times]