Replying to Avatar George Vaccaro

In early January 2021 I unfollowed everyone on Twitter, involuntarily.

My experience changed drastically as I lost all of my followers and DMs as well. My signal was immediately silenced.

The algorithm wasn't the problem. The problem arose from complicit Twitter leadership at the time being corrupted by illegal actions of a tyrannical government. They chose to lie about it rather than expose those illegal actions, as was eventually done under new leadership via the #TwitterFiles.

Being able to own my identity, as is now possible thanks to nostr, is a welcome restoration of my voice and rights to free expression. Twitter is a dead man walking due to malevolent and benevolent actions and thankfully disruption grown from rejection of emergent central control.

Let us all remain skeptical of those supposed leaders, despite their "benevolent contributions". There are always strings attached, even if not explicit. This is how our once great ideals have been twisted to allow just this sort of massive rights infringement in the first place.

Influence centralizes power and then morphs into control.

Stay free.
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Change this if you want 1y ago

I wouldn’t give too much hope for the new twitter leadership. But yes, nostr fixes a lot of the above described! We don’t have leaders on here !

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George Vaccaro 1y ago

Don't worry, I don't put faith in them. I just give Elon credit for exposing the tyrants instead of running cover for them.

As for the management at the time, they should have to tirelessly earn and build back the reputation they burned, and we should all remain cautiously skeptical. Fool me once...

People are too trusting, IMO, especially when cash is waved in their faces.

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Change this if you want 1y ago

I remember listening to one of the russian oligarchs (Boris Berezovsky) interviews who played a big role in making putin president, and he once said: "Give me the TV remote, and in six months I'll make a stool into a president."

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inventor 1y ago

he's cozy with bibi the genocider