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This privilege may be unilaterally modified or revoked at any time by said transnational corporation who owns the space you’re a guest of.
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While it works now (mostly), we’d be fools, long-term, to trust the medium of short-form immediate global communication to a private entity.
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And the only alternative I can see is a new global organisation, akin to the UN, to create a competing public network.
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@FilipNest No. ’cos they’re solving a problem no one has. No one wakes up & says ‘wish there was a decentralised social network I could use’
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