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   Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 00:38:59 JST Nathan Schneider

   Billionaire-proof open social media is now mission-critical infrastructure for the future of democracy.

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     Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 03:09:11 JST Nathan Schneider

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     • VulcanTourist

     @VulcanTourist The point is he can't be

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     VulcanTourist (vulcantourist@autistics.life)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 03:09:12 JST VulcanTourist

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     @ntnsndr

     Has Elon been banned from getting a Fediverse account?

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     Christmas Lights (light@noc.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 08:14:43 JST Christmas Lights

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     @ntnsndr Why?
     Please explain as if to someone not in your political/ideological/social bubble.

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     Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 08:14:43 JST Nathan Schneider

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     • Christmas Lights

     @light @ntnsndr The major social media platforms (at least Meta, X, and TikTok) are now in the thrall of a single political leader. The ability to have dissident speech now depends on having networks that are not similarly capture-able.

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     Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 08:34:23 JST Nathan Schneider

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     • kolya

     @kolya @ntnsndr The two depend on each other

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     kolya (kolya@social.cologne)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 08:34:25 JST kolya

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     @ntnsndr yes, that is why I'm here, to save democracy. not for pics of species ambiguous erotica.

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     Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 09:09:10 JST Tim Chambers

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     @ntnsndr Amen.

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     Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 07:43:24 JST Nathan Schneider

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     • Christmas Lights

     @light Yes, I think Aether was a really interesting experiment!

     Hylo has also been introducing some interesting collaborative moderation tools.

     And a student of mine has been building user-governed moderation for Bsky: https://pmsky.social/

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     Christmas Lights (light@noc.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 07:43:25 JST Christmas Lights

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     @ntnsndr To my mind, that means P2P networks and darknets.
     Only then can we have truly free speech.
     But they needn't be ungoverned.
     They can be designed with new forms of governance, unconstrained by the implicit feudalism of the old.

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     Christmas Lights (light@noc.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 07:43:25 JST Christmas Lights

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     @ntnsndr For example, Aether (a Reddit-like) had democratic and individualistic moderation (collectively vote on default moderation for newcomers but your vote is your moderator regardless): https://getaether.net/
     And Cabal Chat has what they call "subjective moderation" (choose your own moderators): https://cabal.chat/