https://twitter.com/SeaTacAirport/status/1028136857190584320

Damn

Elon is a man of culture and refine taste

```"Persecution for the expression of opinions seems to me perfectly logical. If you have no doubt of your premises or your power, and want a certain result with all your heart, you naturally express your wishes in law, and sweep away all opposition. To allow opposition by speech seems to indicate that you think the speech impotent, as when a man says that he has squared the circle, or that you do not care wholeheartedly for the result, or that you doubt either your power or your premises.

But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe even more than they believe the very foundations of their own conduct that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas -- that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out.

That, at any rate, is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment. Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge. While that experiment is part of our system, I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country."``` -Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes 1919, which changed how freedom of speech is known today.

Almost 100 years ago.

What a chad

a fucking unit

Absolute UNIT

that's what i meant, i'm tired

No I wasn't correcting you

i know, i still meant to say that

@Timcast upon seeing the twitter ban video, first thing i came to think of <https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/07/cage-the-mastodon/>

I'd prefer to use somemthing like minds

Are you bashing Mastodon?

Nah

mastodon seems interesting but I know nothing about it

i should have an article on how to use hubzilla as well, but that one is more like facebook

<https://medium.com/we-distribute/the-do-everything-system-an-in-depth-review-of-hubzilla-3-0-692204177d4e>

@angeryer it is very twitter-esque

😨

Why would anyone wanna ape twitter

It's one of the worst mediums I've ever seen.

it is still quite new

but it is federated which is a plus

I don't even use twitter anyway

but federated is pretty rad

I actually like the idea of twitter, basically thinking of it as a big chatroom. it's terrible for serious discussion of course.

It's cool, but doesn't interest me all that much

*maximum default message length is 500 charactets*

i see twitter more like a rss feed

With twitter and the small character limit, every tweet seemed like a bold declarative statement. A recipe for the most arguments of any medium. You would be actively punished with less viewership for going more in-depth. It became difficult to read your posts as one whole.

With tumblr..

The problem is less obvious with tumblr, but just as malignant.

Suppose everyone you follow on tumblr is in some sort of heated argument.

From your perspective, everyone you follow is DUNKING on their opponents all the time.

iirc on mastodon you can limit who can read the post, followers only etc

No one you follow is ever wrong.

1st and 2nd parties are arguing. 3rd party only follows the first.

The 3rd party only knows the 2nd party won the argument when the 1st party chooses to reblog it. And guess how often that happens.

yeah twitter "threaded conversations" are the wurst