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  <div class=""><p class="">I wholeheartedly concur with Marc - but would go a bit further to
      state that such an idealistic endeavor should be collectively
      owned by the people who build and use it, rather than some elite
      group of wealthy individuals. And of course should be FLOSS,
      decentralized, secure, and offline-first (a la Scuttlebutt).<br class="">
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    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Jenny Ryan
CENO / OuiSync Project Manager, eQualitie
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://censorship.no/">https://censorship.no</a>  ||  <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://equalitie.org/">https://equalitie.org</a>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/27/22 20:52, Marc Juul wrote:<br class="">
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            10:35 PM Yosem Companys <<a href="mailto:ycompanys@gmail.com" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">ycompanys@gmail.com</a>>
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              <div class="">Dear Liberation Technology community,</div>
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              <div class="">A group of wealthy serial entrepreneurs who built a
                Twitter clone to foster civic democracy in the 2020
                elections just reached out to me to ask whether you
                would be interested in using a Liberationtech-friendly
                Twitter clone now that Elon Musk has bought Twitter.
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                  <li class="">Would you use a Liberationtech-friendly Twitter
                    clone?</li>
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          <div class="">Possibly. <br class="">
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                  <li class="">What would make you want to use it? Conversely,
                    what would make you NOT want to use it?</li>
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          <div class="">* Fully open source with a copyleft license <br class="">
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          <div class="">* Openly developed (engaging with community and accepting
            pull requests)<br class="">
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          <div class="">* No copyright assignment</div>
          <div class="">* Full peer to peer, offline and sneakernet capability
            like scuttlebutt (otherwise why not Mastodon?)<br class="">
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          <div class="">and ideally:</div>
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          <div class="">* Private groups, communities (groups of groups) and
            semi-private communities (read-only, write requires auth)</div>
          <div class="">* Network of trust implementation (e.g. "someone you
            trust verified that this is a real human")<br class="">
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          <div class="">* Trustworthy encryption built in</div>
          <div class="">* Censorship circumvention integration (e.g. via <a href="http://equalit.ie/" moz-do-not-send="true" class="">equalit.ie</a>)</div>
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