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Maybe Twitter users can learn from how Chinese netizens work around their microblogging censors.

Once you realize that a keyword like "substack" is banned, you start using similar-sounding standin words. "Stacksub", "sub stack", "scooby snack", and so on. Keep the censors busy, and the blocklists full of nonsense.

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American TikTok users have been using the term "Mascara" as an alternate for discussing Sexual Assault which is deranked/censored/more-heavily-moderated.

I fear its a cat and mouse game. Once something goes viral enough the moderation team will notice it too.

One nice thing about democracy is that you can opt out of a service if you don't like its policies. This all seems a bit silly when you can move over to Mastodon or similar.

Sure, I can. But I can't force other people to, at least not without changing the definition of "opt".

If people insist on using it, they'd may as well be internet-y about it.

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