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by riffic 1529 days ago
I like to call it user hostility.

You would not believe the amount of disdain Twitter, Inc, has for its users.

What's cute is that Twitter has always been a walled-garden, since its founding. We have better alternatives now. Don't matter though, because there's a centralization/decentralization pendulum in big picture computing trends. If you skate to where the puck is going to be (not where it's been), we're in the middle of a swing to the decentralization side.

Look at W3C recommendation ActivityPub (a specification for the federated social web with a vibrant and fun ecosystem of communities). You may know of Mastodon, its biggest implementation.

Or, for the free speech* types out there, just host a WordPress site where you agree with the terms of the AUP.