Christine Lemmer-Webber @cwebber@social.coop
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Except, for the most part, they aren't doing it! Things like repealing Section 230 in the US won't punish big tech much at all, it'll make it so that big players dominate the ecosystem more because they are the only ones that can comply with it (a "regulatory moat") and in the process, they'll tamp down on content from more diverse groups (it's no coincidence a lot of these bills are being pushed for by fundamentalist anti-queer lobbying orgs.) And unfortunately, it may get a lot harder for smaller, community oriented and self-hosting groups to exist.

(Notably, even Matrix is recognizing this in their own blogpost about Discord stuff!) matrix.org/blog/2026/02/welcom

Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

matrix.org

Christine Lemmer-Webber @cwebber@social.coop
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Similarly, activism right now is absolutely relying on end-to-end encryption; Signal is hugely important to activists today. But much queer community building actually still happens in places like Discord, and Signal is highly centralized, and let's be honest, "just host your own Matrix server" isn't an easy ask for most people.

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