Regardless of who owns, funds or runs these sites, there will always be outsiders. Some outsiders should be outside - all views aren’t good faith views so they don’t all deserve consideration or amplification. But good ideas often come from the fringes and I often consider how Einstein would be treated on social media for his views on gravity and space-time. He would be ridiculed, dunked on and laughed at. I mean that’s what happened a century ago, and I worry we’re making the same mistake with other good-faith, evidence-based, thoughtful, non-orthodox ideas today.
Can decentralized social media save us?
Regardless of who owns, funds or runs these sites, there will always be outsiders. Some outsiders should be outside - all views aren’t good faith views so they don’t all deserve consideration or amplification. But good ideas often come from the fringes and I often consider how Einstein would be treated on social media for his views on gravity and space-time. He would be ridiculed, dunked on and laughed at. I mean that’s what happened a century ago, and I worry we’re making the same mistake with other good-faith, evidence-based, thoughtful, non-orthodox ideas today.