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Re:Promotion of alternative social platforms policy by ttepasse on Sunday December 18, 2022 @01:43PM (#34041114)
> well funded Twitter clone

In a way that are the failure modes of Twitter itself. Centralized, funded by VCs, susceptible to the whims of the millionaire owners.

Wasn’t Post the clone where, according to their TOS, you couldn’t "discriminate by net worth"?

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Re:Promotion of alternative social platforms policy by SideburnsOfDoom on Sunday December 18, 2022 @04:31PM (#34043706)
That's the one.

https://mastodon.social/@taylorlorenz/109422846935825930

But they might have changed that "no criticising the rich" policy now. Since it's such a bad look.

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Re:Promotion of alternative social platforms policy by astrange on Sunday December 18, 2022 @04:38PM (#34043798)
That’s a good policy. You should discriminate by net assets instead.

Someone with a zero net worth because they have millions in assets and millions in debt is probably actually rich - otherwise how’d they get the loans?

Same for a new dentist who’s negative due to student debt but is about to have more than enough income to handle it.

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