arkanciscan

The gov't can take your physical gold just as easily as they can take the computer with your wallet. Nothing is yours if the state says it's not.

How did US officials "seize" bitcoin? Were they working with an exchange? The Bitcoin addresses were said to be based in Russia. Was the Russian government involved?

Who leaves sticky keys on?

There was a time that I thought that Twitter should do what Parler is doing; let the original author approve replies before making them visible. Now that I've seen Parler demonstrate it, I think that Twitter would never have become as popular as it is if they had done so from the begining. The feature that allows for the wide conversation that Twitter is famous for is also responsible for it's abusability.

I tried Parler, and everyone is missing the point. Parler doesn't censor content because replies aren't linked to "Parleys" by default. All replies must be "approved" by the author. You can troll, but nobody will ever see it except OP. It absolutely solves the abuse problem that Twitter has, but it also limits discussion. The appeal of Twitter is that you get to see what everyone thinks. Parler is for sycophants only.

Parler doesn't deal with this problem at all.

Depends how lazy you are!

How do you store photos there? Do they make an Android client that syncs your phone's photos to the cloud?

That's my cue to start self-hosting again!

I had to stop at "few negatives" because my eyes wouldn't stop rolling.

Gmail can also ban you

> Yes, some users really do migrate there to avoid censorship or bullying

Literally

Mastodon doesn't prevent censorship. If anything it makes it worse. Instead of dealing with professional community managers operating with clear rules, you are at the mercy of some random nerd running a server from his mom's basement. You can run your own instance, but then you're just talking to yourself. Nothing is stopping you from building your own Twitter, hell we had blogs for years before Twitter. You go to Twitter so you don't have to promote yourself to get an audience, and abiding by Twitter's censorship policies is the cost of admission.

The criteria was that everyone needs to have access to the messaging platform. SMS checks that box. SMS does not do literally everything, but that's not the most important quality of a messaging platform.