[liberationtech] Wealthy entrepreneurs ask whether you would use a Liberationtech-friendly Twitter clone?

[Julian Oliver]

..on Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 03:34:19PM -0700, Yosem Companys wrote:
> Dear Liberation Technology community,
> 
> 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. They want to know the following:
> 
>    - Would you use a Liberationtech-friendly Twitter clone?
>    - What would make you want to use it? Conversely, what would make you
>    NOT want to use it?
>    - What would you name it? They said they might even be open to calling
>    it Liberationtech, if there were enough interest.
> 
> Thank you,
> Yosem

I think with Mastodon's growth ballooning at the moment, already very
established and liked, there is not a need. In other words, there is already a
federated replacement for Twitter that seems to be working quite well as a
migration target.

IMO it only needs E2EE (perhaps XMPP/OMEMO) for OTR, or Proteus
(Axolotl/Double-Ratchet) a la Wire for DMs.
 
Cheers,

Julian

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