Hand me the roll of foil next. The Arab Spring, Hong Kong protests, those sorts of things were where Twitter truly shined. A lot of powerful people want to take the voice away from the masses.
And crafting a little addition to my own hat: I firmly believe Reddit is doing the same now. The goal is to silence everyone but the voices they want to hear from. It's working but with federated social media, the tide may turn. 🤞
Honestly, all I need is something to occupy my eyes and fill that reflex that has me tapping an app on the tray of my home screen when I'm stressed or need a distraction.
This place isn't the most efficient (yet) and there are many gaps from what I used to read back in my Reddit days but that place was beginning to be too toxic for me anyway.
The newness of this, and the energy here is much better for my mental health. I can see googling something +Reddit to read an opinion about a TV show or something but if they don't allow unauthenticated browser access to the site, I won't even be doing that anymore. And I'll almost certainly be better off for it.