Ye, want your own federated social platform where you cannot be censored by corporate interests?


Update: Since sending this letter and writing this site, news has been published that you have entered into an agreement to purchase Parler. Please consider federating the service, lest it become another targetable, censorable, walled garden.


You should have your own Fediverse server, potentially here at ye.social. You don't need corporate platforms, and the people don't either.

Fediverse accounts are addressed similar to emails, e.g., @kan@ye.social.

Because the network is federated (like email), accounts and posts on one instance can be seen and interacted with from other federated instances.

Why are existing corporate platforms inadequate? In texts to Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey put it this way:


March 26, 2022

Jack Dorsey:
Yes, a new platform is needed. It can't be a company. This is why I left.

Elon Musk:
Ok
What should it look like?

Jack Dorsey:
I believe it must be an open source protocol, funded by a foundation of sorts that doesn't own the protocol, only advances it. A bit like what Signal has done. It can't have an advertising model. Otherwise you have surface area that governments and advertisers will try to influence and control. If it has a centralized entity behind it, it will be attacked. This isn't complicated work, it just has to be done right so it's resilient to what has happened to twitter.



Own your platform. Flip the table. Diversify the internet.

Text/Call/Facetime/Signal the number on the letter I sent or email me: m@tthamilton.com


My name is Matt Hamilton. My account on the fediverse (server that I once ran for the No Agenda podcast, before free speech was problematic) is @eriner@noauthority.social.