• asante [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    damn, they got African Stream?! wishing a slow and painful death to amerikkka

    well it is twitter and meta so shouldn’t be surprised abt the platforms they got banned from. plus youtube’s been trigger happy w/ its content policy for a long time now

    e: just meta, not twitter

      • someone [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.net
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        2 months ago

        Twitter

        Another American platform.

        Telegram

        A platform recently compromised by the French government.

        The Cold War 2.0 information crackdown is already here. At first it will be the low-hanging fruit: channels on corporate platforms. After that will be more subtle McCarthy-type pressure, then overt. If anyone is doing anything important on a corporate platform, it’s time to make alternative-communication plans now.

            • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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              I don’t use it personally, but from my understanding Telegram has been moving in the “everything app” direction. While it does group chats and DMs (like Matrix), it is also used as a publishing platform (like Twitter or Substack), among other things. This model of doing a million different things under one brand name is something I don’t expect any free software platform to take up any time soon. They typically prefer to choose one problem, solve it, and keep the project focused within that scope, whereas commercial platforms just acquire firms and assimilate their functionality under their branding (or, less successfully, decide randomly one day that the micro-blogging platform is now a video streaming platform suitable for presidential campaign launch announcements).

              The tendency for tire manufacturers to become the de facto review board for luxury restaurants is a uniquely capitalist phenomenon.

              • Zvyozdochka [she/her, pup/pup's]@hexbear.net
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                Ah, that makes sense then. I think It’d be cool to see an open-source take on the “everything app”, my (limited) experience with WeChat is quite positive. It’s incredibly convenient to just have one login that can grant you access to everything you’d ever need and have it be widely enough used for it to be actually useful.