He built Facebook and acquired Instagram not to be a defender of Free Speech, but to make a lot of money. It is naive to think that these billion-dollar companies would diminish the power of the state. When the hand of the state falls to these companies, they quickly align themselves with the government for fear of reprisal or even extinction. Elon Musk, a defender of freedom of expression, did not support his opinion and paid the fine to return to operating in Brazil. What I see is that these companies are actually extensions of the government's plans.

If it is possible to censor wait long enough and it will censor again. A better advice would be to move to a free protocol like nostr

Good move.

Everyone on X is dunking on Zuck rn pretending they would have done better than him or Jack but they've never started a billionaire venture backed deca-billion dollar social media company in the capital of wokistan aka California. They've probably never led a real team or had a board of directors before.

They were not just fighting for market share in the most hypercompetitive B2C environment but having governments breath down your neck demanding censorship.

Few in history have had the testicular fortitude of Elon.

Too late

are zuck's pronouns it/its ?

Unfortunately there's a LOT of very useful normie groups that only exist on Facebook. And it's really easy to set up groups. I still need to check it out on occasion.

The pendulum is swinging.

I won't be going back to Facebook. I don't think I need it anymore.