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Re:Trump sues Twitter, Google and Facebook alleging 'censors... by smoldesu on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @02:44PM (#27764432)
> I would prefer if such a "public square" site weren't for profit, if I'm going to be honest. Not sure how well that would work

Works perfectly fine. There are plenty of alt-platforms that are based on self-hosted principles like that (Mastodon, Pleroma, Matrix), and all of them are about the most "free" platforms (rather, protocols) you can find.

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Re:Trump sues Twitter, Google and Facebook alleging 'censors... by Karsteski on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @02:49PM (#27764494)
Yea, I do think protocols, not platforms, is the way to go. I especially like the way Mastodon works because you can allow/disallow federation of servers without actually being able to deplatform others
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Re:Trump sues Twitter, Google and Facebook alleging 'censors... by kstrauser on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @03:52PM (#27765096)
As a Mastodon admin, I wholeheartedly agree. I can decide not to connect to a given server, but I can't stop that server from existing. I think this is an excellent design.
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