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by thepasswordis 1066 days ago
Because nobody uses those other social media sites.

Why should our governments line the pockets of verizon, cogent, L3, AT&T, when they could just broadcast the messages on a hacked together lorawan chat handheld that my friends and I use to talk to each other at burning man?

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> Because nobody uses those other social media sites.

You realize Twitter isn't even in the top 10 social media platforms worldwide. Facebook has almost 6x as many users.

I think this is their facebook account. It's login-gated: https://www.facebook.com/TranBC/