BUT YOU’RE READING THIS ON AN ALTERNATIVE MEDIA PLATFORM RIGHT NOW. Speaking of: Especially after reading the crazy, simply crazy, story about YouTube deleting an expert panel that included comments about how children don’t need to wear masks (as they never have in much of Europe) because the experts were supposedly sharing “misinformation”, as determined by some anonymous YouTube staff person whom we will never know and who will never be accountable for his actions or made to actually debate the subject with said experts… I thought it would be worthwhile to make mention of some technological solutions that are less susceptible to the censorship and control of an increasingly hostile Big Corporate. (Of course you may also opt for the Full Amish solution to Big Tech censorship, and I wouldn’t begrudge you that at all.) But if you desire to stay connected, what do you want in alternative tech? A few related things, I’d say:
It's possible to fix some fraction of the technical side of the damage inflicted by Big Tech's domination of the market, but there's really no way to undo the sociological consequences of polarization. That is, every new platform is tainted on some level by the ideological sorting of its user base, to the point where my odds of getting any other member of my family (all ideologically dissimilar to me and quite happy on Facebook) to migrate to a new platform is low -- especially to one with an explicitly partisan identity (Parler et al, and probably including NotTheBee).
Without the ability to reconstruct an ideologically diverse group of users of the sort that existed in the Facebook-vs-Myspace era, social media is being unwound by irreversible entropy. Solving that problem requires a different toolkit, a social rather than technological one.
American Thinker uses MeWe for comments. I don't see MeWe on your list, is it a questionable forum? American Thinker disabled comments shortly after Jan 6 and apologized to Dominion so I am leery of them.
It's possible to fix some fraction of the technical side of the damage inflicted by Big Tech's domination of the market, but there's really no way to undo the sociological consequences of polarization. That is, every new platform is tainted on some level by the ideological sorting of its user base, to the point where my odds of getting any other member of my family (all ideologically dissimilar to me and quite happy on Facebook) to migrate to a new platform is low -- especially to one with an explicitly partisan identity (Parler et al, and probably including NotTheBee).
Without the ability to reconstruct an ideologically diverse group of users of the sort that existed in the Facebook-vs-Myspace era, social media is being unwound by irreversible entropy. Solving that problem requires a different toolkit, a social rather than technological one.
American Thinker uses MeWe for comments. I don't see MeWe on your list, is it a questionable forum? American Thinker disabled comments shortly after Jan 6 and apologized to Dominion so I am leery of them.