@thor@mstdn.social They're an in-between thing because social media needs to be defined as a third thing but hasn't.

Essentially, curating makes you a publication. As soon as you say "we like this opinion, it stays, but this other is a bad take so it's removed" you're doing the job of a journal: picking which content to include.

What's at the heart of these issues is whether a line can really be found between abuse and free political expression, that isn't precariously vulnerable to abuse to further political aims.

It's like how virtually everyone in the US and world hates Nazis, but that just means everyone tries to categorize their opponents as Nazis.

So how do we create a social forum concept that ensures public discourse on political, economic and social ideas isn't dominated by who has the money or political power right now to dictate who the "bad guys" are and what "evil" is?