How to leave dying social media platforms
As a person who supports decentralization, and a user having the ability to control what content they see, or block (without a centralized party being able to stop it), I support the gist of this article.<p>But I think the author fundamentally misunderstands why people don&#x27;t like the claimed upcoming Twitter changes.<p>The pro moderation people don&#x27;t like the changes, because they want the supposedly benevolent dictator to control the centralized platform, to moderate it.<p>They want the Twitter team to be engaging in centralized moderation, and control who or who does not have access to the &quot;digital square&quot;.<p>Therefore, given that this is what people want, suggesting that users leave to a decentralized platform, where the user controls everything, and can choose to read &quot;misinformation&quot; or choose to discuss things with others saying supposedly horrible statements, is counter to those pro-moderation goals.<p>The pro moderation goals only work where there are a couple centralized actors, all marching in lock steps, with few users on all the irrelevant alternatives.<p>And giving users back the power, undermined this goal.