This seems extremely relevant given everything going on. Do we have to worry about the same deplatforming and data tracking as we see on other media sites? Asking because I just don’t know - I don’t want to hop over just to have the same problems.
My point is that, since Gab "joined" Mastodon, nothing of what you have predicted happened to Mastodon. My hope is that the same things will (not) happen to Peertube, for the same reasons.
What exactly do you mean by that?
* Trump has been bannned from Twitter.
* Trump has attempted to use the POTUS account, and had those tweets removed.
* Trump has been removed from Facebook.
* Trump has been banned from Twitch.
* The Discord server for the_donald has been banned from Discord.
* Parler has been removed from the Google Play Store and the App Store.
* AWS has announced plans to discontinue Parler's hosting.
And I think that's about it, for very recently. For those who support Trump, "deplatforming" is a major concern, as Trump has now lost access to essentially all of his base via social media. Once he's out of office, he's not going to have anywhere near as significant a reach as he may have.
There are also a lot of people who are concerned about the dangerous precedent being set, regardless of whether they support this individual or not.
And it’s trivial for someone kicked off of the big social media networks to make there own website and post whatever they want.
He was elected because conservative opinions have been given so little credence versus liberal opinions on the biggest platforms that they turned to someone who would fight those platforms head on.
Liberal voices and opinions have been lauded, applauded, and promoted more than their fair share by most media and social media platforms for decades. That has created deep resentment in large areas of the country.
Donald Trump is a symptom of the disease that American politics and the associated media outlets have contracted. He is not the disease itself.
The way he is acting is not that surprising to anyone who pays attention to his personality. And the response in the last week by media and social media and big tech companies has also not been surprising, although I think they should have been more measured.
But the underlying problem still remains. De-platforming Donald Trump will not fix the broken and biased system. And every move and countermove escalates the resentment.
I’m from a small town in the upper Midwest. My entire childhood and teenage years were dominated by Rush Limbaugh/Charlie Sykes/et al on the radio and Fox News on the television (always Fox News). Did NPR/CNN/etc exist? Sure - but I (literally) didn’t know anyone who listened/watched them until college.
This idea that conservatives are being crushed under the boot of “liberal” media feels like a cop-out. Conservative politicians could have gone big tent in the 80-90’s, but they didn’t. They focused on consolidation of a specific demographic and are now in a kerfluffal because that base is becoming a cultural minority.
Edit: also - the resentment was always there. Go listen to Rush in the 90s. Nothing about what conservatives are complaining about is new.
I think this is roughly equivalent to Visa telling you that it won't do business with you. Which they recently did with Pornhub.
There doesn't seem to be many good solutions. The Refragmentation (http://paulgraham.com/re.html) was the only pg essay I truly disliked, because I didn't want it to be true. Yet here we are.
Article: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johnpaczkowski/amazon-p...
And HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25708142
If both Visa and Mastercard happened to have banned you, them being pretty much the only two players in the market, you would be pretty much fucked.
Meanwhile there were tons of ways to be hosted, including self-hosting.
Nowadays I'm not so sure, both Visa/Mastercard duopoly doesn't seem to be as uncontested as before, and AWS kept growing ?
https://twitter.com/DaveLeeFT/status/1347724204473372672
Press releases rely on press organisations to distribute, which aren't under Trump's control, unlike his previous social media accounts, which had a reach of millions by themselves.
I am not trying to impute any kind of values onto these facts. They're just things that have happened around the deplatforming of Trump, post 6th January.
If served with an injunction by a court, or if the user failed to pay their bills, those are the only cases in which you would see them stop serving a client.
EDIT: Just checked and it’s resolving to Cloudflare IPs where I’m at. Same same but different I guess.
I support the other "deplatformings" (he loooong had it coming), and am neutral about AWS, but this is bullshit. Google, and especially Apple (where there's no workarounds) shouldn't have the right to ban generic software like that !
Or is that a feature? Are humans actually ready for the internet? I am not so sure. Just visited parler, and imagine a whole world filled with bat shit. Crazy, right?
It isn't anyone's job to rescue Parler. They're locked into a cloud provider, and that was their own doing. If they can't survive, tough kitty.
However, an open internet, with the ability to run apps outside of app stores (needed for new peer to peer stuff to thrive), and use of crypto would mean someone could make a Parler. Mastodon and Matrix have had major controversies.
It has “problematic” works like Huckleberry Finn, Satanic Diaries and To Kill a Mockingbird.
It has works written by known racists such as HP Lovecraft, TS Elliot, Roald Dahl, Dr Seuss and Kingsley Amis.
It has hard copies of dangerous films that have been memoyholed by Prime and Netflix like Gone With The Wind and The Jazz Singer. It may also have DVDs that have been produced, directed and acted in by vile, cancelled individuals like Kevin Spacey, Louise CK, Harvey Weinstein, or Mel Gibson.
Good God, it might even have a copy of the Jenna in blackface episode from the third season of 30 Rock. I am clutching my pearls and getting the vapors just thinking about it.