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...will have an interesting effect:

The more people would be banned away from "mainstream" expression platforms, the more need in "alternative" ones will arise.

That would materialize one of the many lines of division of the society - as audience of these competing platforms will be opposing each other on the key human values level.

Back in a day, people had to wear specific uniforms to confirm allegiance to a particular side of the society in a civil war.

Now, that would be an account on a specific social networking platform.

...will have an interesting effect: The more people would be banned away from "mainstream" expression platforms, the more need in "alternative" ones will arise. That would materialize one of the many lines of division of the society - as audience of these competing platforms will be opposing each other on the key human values level. Back in a day, people had to wear specific uniforms to confirm allegiance to a particular side of the society in a civil war. Now, that would be an account on a specific social networking platform.

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[–] [deleted] • 2 pts

If you have to actually lift a finger to do anything outside of the norm to use a platform, it will never gain traction. Even here. I tried to drum up support for Aether, which is completely invulnerable to all the http-based forms of censorship and blocking, and 90% of all responses were, Aether? Never head of it! Wait, I have to install something? Fuck off!

This from the ssame people who will install Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Chromium, Dessenter, Facebook, Twitter, Parler, Ruqqus, etc.

WAIT, a PLATFORM tthat CAN'T be taken down? GO FUCK YOURSELF, SHILL!!!

BTW, Poal will never end up like Voat, or 8Chan... Right?

If only there were an alternative.. Oh, well, I guess we'll never have that... No such thing.

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Aether is definitely an interesting platform.

More so, once communication AND cryptocurrency technology would come together, that'd be the best thing after bitcoin.

Because of the impossibility of impostors and provocateurs to operate in a ledger model, and financial support to those who captain the free speech.