Hacker News with Generative AI: Online Discourse

History of social media platforms splintered into smaller communities (noemamag.com)
For the past two decades, most online discourse has occurred on a handful of social media platforms. Their dominion seemed unshakeable. The question wasn’t when a challenger to Twitter or Facebook might arrive but if one could ever do so successfully. Could a killer new app, or perhaps the cudgel of antitrust, make a difference?
After Authenticity (2018) (subpixel.space)
Has it occurred to you that nobody talks about sellouts anymore?
Why freedom of speech is a wicked problem (ghost.io)
The recent online discussion on "freedom of speech" that has flared up after Pavel Durov's arrest has forced me to dig this topic out of the backlog.