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		pmoriarty on Oct 28, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Elon Musk Owns Twitter; CEO and CFO have left "Yeah, I think that's a big reason we've moved on from chatrooms to networks like twitter, where everyone creates their own moderated space" You can do exactly the same thing on IRC... and IRC had that a long time before Twitter even existed.

amadeuspagel on Oct 28, 2022 [–]

Not quite the same thing. Yes everyone can create their own IRC channel. But in practice ... On twitter everyone tweets and blocks people.

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