Evropi {l Wrote}:Funny you say "censorship machine" when Twitter is precisely known for not deleting things.
... which is wrong. Twitter deleted several hashtags about the movement Occupy Wall Street.
Evropi {l Wrote}:In fact, the French government applied a daily fine to Twitter because Twitter refused to censor anti-Semites. Not to mention how many national governments are wary of Twitter. Turkey comes to mind, and I think China isn't keen on it either; Weibo is the state-friendly equivalent to Twitter there, much like Baidu is the equivalent of Google.
The same French government allowed the public and private French TV channels to mention their Twitter accounts without considering this is a kind of dissimulated advertising in favor of Twitter. Turkey is a bad example, only a few members of the AKP really fear Twitter. Twitter serves its own interests and the interests of its partners, it's a corporation after all, there is no charity. You can't install your own Twitter on a server and do what you want with it.
Evropi {l Wrote}:I was on Identi.ca myself but it died when Google+ was introduced. The remnants of the community disappeared when pump.io was rolled out, which was, and continues to be, an unmitigated disaster.
Some features have disappeared, the main public page for example. I still see a lot of people on Identi.ca.
Evropi {l Wrote}:For what it's worth, Richard Stallman has gone on the record (on Techrights) and said he is okay with Twitter since there's a lot of free software clients it can be accessed and used from.
Are you talking about that?
http://techrights.org/2014/03/16/richard-stallman-social/I agree with a lot of his views but I'm not his "bot". Centralized social networks are easier to censor, proprietary social networks aren't only composed of clients and in my humble opinion, his position is rather a kind of abnegation because he decided to use Twitter and he must justify his choice.