Donald Trump's 'communications' platform permanently taken offline
bbc.com
bbc.com
"Apps" can't die soon enough.
Instead of government officials publishing on Twitter or Facebook directly, the feds should have their own Mastodon instance with everyone's work accounts, and that can get federated out to the other platforms.
Use their weight to make accepting federated content a clear feature, rather than supporting one specific private platform.
Considering we are continually being ruled by septuagenarians, maybe we can adjust our assumptions about what older people are capable of.
Although the young skew away from their grandparents ideals, people who are in their 40s and 50s tend to vote similarly.
It seems to me that a blog with proper (mainstream) social network "share" buttons can reach a significantly greater audience than an account on, like, Parler, Gab, or Yo.
My best guess here is that Brad Parscale couldn't figure out how to implement "share on Twitter" or "share on Facebook" buttons, which might not be that surprising.
In comparison, if you go to Gab, you only reach users of Gab--and signups are generally a much higher bar for users than resharing.
I think it’s was also a content thing in the case of the blog. Twitter Trump was more interesting than blog Trump even if you don’t like him.
Well that’s what happened.
That's nice.
I’m curious because I read the article and couldn’t find the instance of “big tech playing politics” you are talking about.
It's quite challanging to craft a suitable rule that human craftiness can't subvert which would protect the idea of the First Amendment for all time.
Programming is hard. Writing good law is really hard.
All other news channels spent the last 4 years barred from even attending his press conferences so they can’t be on his side.
Finally, he spent his last weeks of his presidency alienating his most hardcore supporters (e.g. the proud boys, parlor). Had he thrown them the smallest of bones then they might still be on his side rather than feeling betrayed as they do today.
Basically all this show is if you aggressively shoot yourself in the foot, don’t be surprised to find you now have no foot.
Edit: I see there are what I assume to be a couple of examples from his blog. They look very much like individual tweets. This turns it into quite an interesting case, one of a handful of examples I've seen where someone publishes the equivalent of their own twitter stream, on their own site. I used to have a great example, but I can't for the life of me now find it! In the case I've seen previously, the content was syndicated from the site to twitter — obviously, Trump doesn't have that option.
Edit2: It's Tantek Çelik's blog I'm thinking of: https://tantek.com/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebooks-lab-leak-about-face-1...