Larry the Cat: Turns out that an out of touch billionaire amplifying the far right is a turn off.

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2. We need non-corporate social media

Anybody remember Usenet?
Or bulletin boards?

We shouldn't have to sell our identity, history, and discourse to bad actors, so they can steal our lives and manipulate us.
I still say it was Zuck and Zuckbook that gave T the EC in 2016, in collaboration with Cambridge Analytica. FB illegally shared private user data with CA so they could micro-target ads and give T the EC. They were charged, convicted, and got a slap on the wrist fine, cost of doing biz. But they got the Trump presidency and the tax breaks, etc.

There's a reason the billio tech bros are promoting AI.

The Mastodon model looks promising.