Are corporations allowed to limit free speech or not?

@realcaseyrollins yes, otherwise they'd be deprived of their own free speech

the problem is monopolies

@mewmew @realcaseyrollins My stance is that corporate censorship just creates a market for alternatives.

Like the fedi! Honestly if twitter was great, not many of us would be here.

@shebang @mewmew @realcaseyrollins Twitter is good enough that the majority use it. The Fediverse has to have better features and reasons for adoption.

@farhan @shebang @mewmew Mm, IDK. If everyone had heard of the #Fediverse, they might switch.

(Also, moving from one social media site to another isn't that enticing for most. How many users are switching from TikTok to Byte? I would guess not many.)

@realcaseyrollins @shebang @mewmew What would be their incentive? At work, we havee a saying "start with the customer"

What problem does the Fediverse solve for the average person? Privacy? Censorship? The average person is not concerned about privacy and is untouched by censorship.

The good reasons I think to push for the fediverse are:
A. Twitter effectively pushes a certain social agenda and normalizes certain behaviors. I don't think I need to elaborate more on that.
B. Governments are HIGHLY incentived to migrate off Twitter. Think about it - the President communicates over a network the government does not control.
C. Creating walled-off communities.

I suspect Twitter usage will reduce after Trump leaves the presidency - and that could be an opening for the Fediverse.

@farhan @realcaseyrollins @mewmew Twitter at its best is still a crappy experience in some ways though. Like here we get this fun communities and shit, but on twitter is just an ugly mass of stinking, reeking mobs shouting at one another in 280 characters.

@shebang @mewmew @realcaseyrollins True...I'm pretty into the Muslim Twitter (MT) scene, looking to create an instance. Just going to pray over it, figure out if it's my lower self or upper self desiring it...