• Maiq@piefed.social
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    5 hours ago

    I remember watching the Arab Spring unfold. Twitter being a guiding light through the darkness for so many people whos government tried to control available communication.

    Such high hopes for people back then.

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      Occupy Wall Street and Me Too, also. I thought we were headed in the right direction. Fast forward… We got this.

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        All that has happened with the consolidation of social media into a propaganda arm for governments and corporations makes the fediverse decentralized network an important step forward in the right direction.

        If there were another “??? Spring”, could the fediverse be a tool for communication central to a movement still remains a question.