[apo]

> In recent years I’ve been using an open source, federated alternative to Twitter that uses a protocol called ActivityPub. I run my own server for myself and my friends. People on my server can communicate with other servers that support ActivityPub, similar to e-mail. If people on my server don’t like the way I manage it, they can always export their content and start their own, or transfer to someone else’s server.

Twitter is a for-profit company offering a product (its customers) to advertisers. As such, they get to delete any content whatsoever, regardless of the reason. They happen to be using a policy that will cause some accounts to be locked. This is going to get a lot worse because advertisers loath anything that doesn't conform.

Twitter and Facebook aren't the problem - they're symptoms of the terrible, low-hanging monetization fruit on today's web.

There are solutions. One is to stop criticizing Twitter for being beholden to its advertisers and instead build/participate in censorship-resistant platforms.

That's going to result in loss of reach, at least for a time. Then again, so does getting blocked.

[tortasaur]

Can't you both criticize Twitter and use open platforms? They aren't mutually exclusive.