Since when is saying countries should have their own social media platforms "racist"? You think it was "racist" for europe to develop airbus? You think a nation should rely on a foreign power for their social media needs? You think a nation should let a foreign power control their electricity?
Saying nations should empower themselves isn't "racism". It's the opposite of racism.
Bro, come back to me when you're 100% "local". Every last element of your computing environment and lifestyle is manufactured, developed, coded, and maintained locally.
You think that's what twitter is? Most of us don't use twitter.
> that s like the kid that grabs all the toys for himself, and then has nobody to play with
No. It's more like the poor kid that has no toys and has to beg rich kids for their toys to play with. Wouldn't you want the poor kid to have his own toys? Also, having his own toys would make it more likely that other kids with toys will play with him.
You misunderstood my point. There is a reason why I said social media should be a network of networks, aka the "inter"net. Once turkey and other nations have their own twitter and social media, they can connect to each other. Or you can copy paste things from other "networks" to yours and share that way. There are tons of tiktok videos on youtube and vice versa. Just because you are in your own network doesn't mean you will be isolated.
> You literally described isolated instances of major social networks
No. It's the current state of social media. Go to youtube and look up tiktok videos. Go to tiktok and look up youtube videos. Neither are banned and yet people cross post.
> Here's a hint, if your premise starts with "make your own Twitter", it can't end with "you can collaborate across these independent networks by copying and pasting your thoughts" and somehow call it not isolated.
That's how twitter currently works. It's how memes from reddit end up on twitter and vice versa.
I'm describing how the internet works and has always worked. What do you think "inter" in internet means? That's what I want social media to become.
Using your logic, we should only have 1 social media company. Otherwise, we can't communicate with each other.
Here's a hint, posts from other social and traditional media end up on HN. Amazing huh? The more networks we have, ultimately the more diversity and more connections. That was the point of the "inter"net.
> Just because you are in your own network does not mean you are isolated.
You literally described isolated networks. To the point where you had to do an "even though" to try and get yourself out of your logical hole. Do you understand how words work?
The only reason current social networks work is because they allow people from all over the world. You can get a reddit meme on Facebook because someone on Reddit is also on Facebook. If each nation had its own isolated social network only for its own citizens, how, exactly, would someone copy and paste information either from a network they don't have access to (a Turkish person trying to crosspost from US Twitter) or vice versa?
