Any freedom of speech you think you may be entitled to on Twitter is actually voluntarily granted to you by a transnational corporation.
Because no other enterprise, without private subsidy & a free (as in cost) business model can hope to compete at scale.
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@wildebees What would make you think that? Of course not. -
@aral no premium network could compete with a free one -
@wildebees At scale. That's a very important qualifier. And not a free one but a venture-capital subsidised free one. -
@aral and no premium one will be all to price correctly across borders, and people's relationships/ interests don't respect borders
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@aral Are you a fan of@joindiaspora, at least on the technical/software side? -
@boazhsan@joindiaspora While I applaud their motives and effort, I don’t see how a non-design/use-case-led product can compete.
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@aral nations that do not agree with the content, and thereby making it even easier to censor than services like Twitter. -
@archnerdian Hence UN-like :) I would propose a new international entity w remit to create public online spaces.
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@aral There are ppl working on this, like@FreedomBoxFndn, @cznweb and@SandstormIO. Pls share this: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sandstorm-io-personal-cloud-platform …@archnerdian -
@forteller Yep, aware of Sandstorm & already shared.
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@aral Shame that http://app.net didn't take off… -
@ojmason Again, it cannot compete with Twitter w/out using the free business model (at which point it would not be an alternative) -
@aral yep, problem is charging means too few users, but otherwise not sustainable.
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@aral how about a free cooperative content switch that distributes/switches content to the most 'free' publishers. -
@aral If a content publisher censors, they lose a massive content feed. And censorship measured/confirmed by public blockchain -
@grasuth Interesting, Graeme, but sounds very complex to me. Can't see how it’d compete on UX if it required a college course to understand. -
@aral yes. ok, plan b. peer to peer content app. twitter style content spread by whatever msging is available, inc bluetooth. -
@aral star a tweet to re-transmit by any channel. nobody sees everything but important stuff gets around. wanna make this. need funding.
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