Counter Social?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Two links more useful than a login link

https://onlysky.media/mclark/countersocial-isnt-the-new-twitter-its-something-way-better/

Can we do better than the social media that's dominated Western culture and distorted its democracies for the past decade? CounterSocial says yes—if you're ready for change yourselves.
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There’s a popular myth about a frog that stays in a pot of gradually heating water until it boils to death. It’s not true. The original frog takes a bit longer, but it does hop out. And yet, our fatalist belief in the myth of the dead frog makes a lot more sense after my first week “out” of Twitter, and onto a social media platform unlike any I’d experienced before. CounterSocial is one of a few forums you might have heard mentioned in the wake of Elon Musk’s declared intent to buy Twitter, but it’s not a replacement. It’s been around since 2017, as a specially curated instance of pre-existing infrastructure, and it has the potential to be so, so much more.

https://counter.social/faq.html

Why does CounterSocial block entire countries?

Isn't blocking entire nations 'racism' or 'xenophobic'?

Surely that's 'nationalistic'?

Well then it MUST be 'censorship'? Right???

What about my 'free speech'?

Well dayumm, CounterSocial must be somehow violating the (A)GPL license then?

Who defines these rules, anyways?

What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
Is that a European or African Swallow? There's a difference ya know!