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But it's why I work on the #Fediverse these days, the decentralized social communications network not controlled by any entity, and not beholden to making a profit. I believe, among many other things, that it has the potential to claw back communications from being manipulated-by-default to being not-manipulated-by-default. ...
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And if we manage to re-establish a reliable communication channel with each other, at least for a large enough subset of people, we can also start agreeing on what the facts are again.
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