What happens to your reach on X after you get into a fight with Elon (even if you are right wing) https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/04/23/business/elon-musk-x-suppression-laura-loomer.html

Related, I liked this lens of decentralization "if I owed founder a lot of money, would I use their chain?"

Perhaps this is the social network equivalent: "would I risk my audience to get into a fight with the owner/founder of a social network?"

@lex_node @SquigsCat 40b in stables issued on tron.  The only decentralized part of the network the issuer needs is to run a full node.  That’s sufficient to ensure that even if 100% is the rest of the network is faulty that the issuer is safe.  It doesn’t matter what the economic security of the

someone who owed lots of money to Justin Sun would not hold their money on Tron 

someone who owed lots of money to Vitalik would still be willing to hold their money on Ethereum 

someone who owed lots of money to Coinbase would currently not be willing to hold their money on

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Yup, "no one cares, until they do" precisely because this is not something we worry about until it's too late.

The one thing I would say is that I’m not sure these people realized at the time this was the choice they were making

Related, I liked this lens of decentralization "if I owed founder a lot of money, would I use their chain?"

Perhaps this is the social network equivalent: "would I risk my audience to get into a fight with the owner/founder of a social network?"

https://x.com/lex_node/status/1914841403093303597

Ah damn you beat me to it by 17 seconds lmao 

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Hahahah high praise! It was definitely one of my more provocative captions 😂

Yes I just commented on yours too 😂 you have a crypto specific editorializing on the whole thing that is delightful

Many more examples at the link. I doubt you would find any of them nice. 

Owen basically gets his shit kicked in by this movement over and over and is still unflaggingly loyal. 2 months in jail for Jan 6. Obvious reach limiting by Elon yet he still refuses to admit Elon could be responsible. If only we all could have a friend like him

adding gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/04/23/business/elon-musk-x-suppression-laura-loomer.html?unlocked_article_code=1.B08.vfmr.2vXttiKTV1p8&smid=url-share

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So free! 

...

Your first name is Free
Last name is Dom
We choose to believe
In where we're from

...


Feels more like Dumb than 'Dom', recently 😂

Sweet but a psycho. Not easily messed with. Funny, 
Good with numbers,crypto enthusiast.

I don’t know how explain this but X is not a real place 😩

This is why onchain identity + decentralized social is so important. Fc isn’t perfect, but at least it’s not subject to one guy’s moods