This is very good. I had known some of this before.
He goes into why building your twitter can be 1000 times more complicated because of all the other things that can be done to you.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/you-cant-just-build-your-own-twitter/You Can’t ‘Just Build Your Own Twitter’
To build an alternate social media website with a dissenting moderation policy, you must first invent the universe. Good luck.
Robert Mariani
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e.g. note that this is number 7 on this list and there are more
7. Build Your Own Payment Processor
Stripe and PayPal, two of the largest payment processors in the world, terminated their relationship with Gab in 2018. So we get our hands dirty.
Further down the line, these payment processors are pressured by Visa, Mastercard, and global banks, who will refuse to do business with them if they don’t abide by certain rules, which sometimes involves policing political content. I hope you’re noticing a pattern by this point.
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