While I would certainly welcome a Twitter clone, I'd be really hesitant about calling any social media platform "liberation" technology at this point. I think we've all witnessed that this tech is/can be/will be utilized just as much by malicious actors as by liberatory ones, regardless of the policies implemented or content moderation strategies employed.
On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 12:35 AM Yosem Companys <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Liberation Technology community, > > A group of wealthy serial entrepreneurs who built a Twitter clone to > foster civic democracy in the 2020 elections just reached out to me to ask > whether you would be interested in using a Liberationtech-friendly Twitter > clone now that Elon Musk has bought Twitter. They want to know the > following: > > - Would you use a Liberationtech-friendly Twitter clone? > - What would make you want to use it? Conversely, what would make you > NOT want to use it? > - What would you name it? They said they might even be open to calling > it Liberationtech, if there were enough interest. > > Thank you, > Yosem > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable from any major > commercial search engine. Violations of list guidelines will get you > moderated: https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/lt. Unsubscribe, > change to digest mode, or change password by emailing > [email protected]. > -- +1-JILLIAN "To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger" - James Baldwin "We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality" - *Vaclav Havel*
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