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Sam Padilla 🎩
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It's been over a year since Elon acquired Twitter. I'm still baffled that libertarians celebrate the event as a triumph of freedom of speech. It wan't. Elon's Twitter is not the solution. DeSoc is. Just wrote an essay on this. And here goes a quick 🧵 https://paragraph.xyz/@sampadilla/the-new-digital-town-square
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Sam Padilla 🎩
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2/ It's been over a year since the sink walked into Twitter's HQ, symbolizing the end of the deal. But to me, the sink symbolized asymmetry, power concentration, and, above all, a fundamentally mistaken idea of how to protect free speech in society. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1585341984679469056
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Sam Padilla 🎩
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3/ The bulk of the discourse around the acquisition revolved around WHO should have the power to control free speech: A libertarian hero or the woke left establishment. Entirely missing that such power should not exist in the first place - not under Elon nor under anyone.
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4/ The solution is and has always been in decentralized social media. Farcaster, Mastodon, Lens, Diaspora, Paragraph, Mirror - and many like these guys are the solution. Not Elon. https://messari.io/report/decentralized-social-protocol-map
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Sam Padilla 🎩
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5/ The general public has been quick to dismiss these projects as simply a crypto fad. The pushback has consistently been that: a) The UX is not great. b) There are not enough people on these platforms. But this has changed dramatically recently.
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Sam Padilla 🎩
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6/ This is Farcaster's daily active user graph. Total users, posts, and reactions are all through the roof too. Most importantly, the flows and UX of the protocol have improved greatly. Same thing for Paragraph, Mirror, and others.
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