Remember when Ree were laughing at Trump and all the other nutters who got banned from Twitter?
Any techy startup bros wanna get started on a new Twitter with me? 
May as well at this point.
Someone has gotta be working on this, as we speak.
It already exists and is called Mastodon, just needs wider adoption.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/elon-musk-proposes-to-buy-100-of-twitter-for-54-20-per-share-in-cash.572962/page-17
now this is fucking hilarious
mastodon is part of the fediverse which is decentralized and fully open source, meaning at its core it can't be effectively used to deplatform or ban anyone from the platform as a whole
you can choose to block certain fediverse nodes on your instance, if you don't want any users of a hate speech right wing node on yours, but they all still get to keep doing their thing in private
gab moved to mastodon and because this was a singular event, most servers rushed to block gab, but in practice if mastodon saw wider adoption you'd have a broad selection of single-serve nodes with their own interests which some might ban and some might not
that article is titled "how the biggest decentralized social network is dealing with its nazi problem" and the answer was, essentially, a user muting another so they don't see what they say, on a server scale, which is literally all they can do
The response has been messy. Many prominent Mastodon servers already moderate against racism, so Gab has faced a wave of individual blocks from individual servers. But going further has proven controversial, exposing profound questions within the community. Before the migration, one user requested that Mastodon add a hard-coded ban of Gab’s servers, so all instances would automatically cut it off. It was an extreme measure, but one they argued was warranted. “Gab has inspired mass shooters and murders,” they wrote. “You do not understand the type of threat they represent.”
Mastodon founder Eugen “Gargron” Rochko, meanwhile, believes a scorched-Earth campaign against Gab’s fork of Mastodon isn’t practical. “You have to understand it’s not actually possible to do anything platform-wide because it’s decentralized,” he tells The Verge. “I don’t have the control.”
It’s a hard problem, playing off the deepest limitations of decentralized projects like Mastodon. Mastodon arose from the idealistic open-source software movement, designed to let anybody run their own social media site. But it was never intended to support something like Gab.
so elon just creates the muskverse and chooses not to ban the trumpverse or roganverse and before you know it there's a subversive party happening right next door, no matter how high you build your fence
not sure if this is what era is looking for
(eventually gab left mastodon anyway)
