Twitter permanently suspending @CarpeDonktum is a reminder that you can spend years working to build up a following and Twitter can just axe you whenever the hell they wantpic.twitter.com/vwXcrhbiSD
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There are of course side ways to get around. Build an email list. But even so, dangerous and scary to build a house on moving fault lines.
What happens when Google cancels your gmail account? Or cloud computing services refuse to host your traffic? _Everything_ digital is vulnerable to runaway cancel culture.
Don't tell the wrong joke on Twitter ...
Got to build a direct channel as insurance. Newsletter channels are more important than ever.
But not surprising. This has been happening in waves since 2016. Build a parallel brand following somewhere else sooner rather than later.
Learn to Urbit?
It's sort of the cost of doing business when someone else maintains your platform. I agree it's important but, well, a domain name costs $10 a year or something, and hosting of videos, while it costs something, there are alternatives.
This is by chance rather than by design, but I feel relatively safe as my reach is spread across multiple different platforms (Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, my own website etc.).
What's the alleged excuse they used to ban him?
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