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@@ -63,8 +63,7 @@ Twitter users have been complaining about how it's dead, for real this time, for
 If you're a twitter executive, the message is clear: people will accept whatever you do to them, as long as you're slow enough.
 Youtube has the same pattern. Its history is a litany of shifting creators' adsense money over to copyright squatters, while encouraging worse and worse content. Twitch, the company built on South Korean Starcraft streamers which pulled out of Korea because it's too expensive, might as well send everyone a handwritten note to say "leave our platform!"
 No one will. 
-[note] and to be fair... there's plenty.
+It's a classic problem. On Youtube, people view Rumble as a place filled with undesirable exiles. to be fair... there's plenty.
-It's the classic problem. On Youtube, people view Rumble as a place filled with undesirable exiles.
 Twitchists and X-People make up reasons for themselves to view the users of their platforms' rivals as their own enemies. 
 When you think of yourself not as a creator of static video content, but rather as a youtuber, youtube rests on that loyalty. That's way easier than doing anything to implement moderation features like what twitch has. All they have to do is let you tell yourself there's barbarians at the gates.
 If you have the inexplicable addiction to twitter that the world seems to have, you won't dream of being able to post 1024 characters at a time like we've been doing on mastodon this whole time. Or you might say something dumb like, 
@@ -74,7 +73,7 @@ to make it easier for you to rationalize something else dumb, like:
 [Rosencreutz video, near that 1:03:48ish bit]  "good luck finding **a site** that isn't owned by an ethically compromised billionaire"
 without realizing that a communication network doesn't *have* to be centralized under one man's stock portfolio,
 [footage of musk's hitler salute]
-so you don't have to move away from him if he starts leaning hard into fascism.
+so you don't have to weigh the choice of ditching your entire social circle against contributing to the property of someone leaning hard into fascism.
 
 ## what if we did it right
 
@@ -86,7 +85,7 @@ You know what was federated well before the fediverse was built? Email. Servers
 [old audio, from myth-of-multifactor] You could run your own email server. Yes, you. Get an old laptop, leave it plugged in, I bet it's got the specs for it. 
 amazing. 
 [old audio, from myth-of-multifactor] But lots of major email providers have formed a cabal to blacklist quote-unquote spammers. so you can set up a functional mail server, which is already overly complicated, but you'll also have to set up some *more* pieces to be allowed to play with the other kids.
-There's a reason that happened. Socially well-adjusted normal people were forced to use email. To help them understand, they were told it's like writing a letter. So manager types of the world overall decided that the custom in email-land is to add pointless bullshit before and after *every single message*. 
+There's a reason that happened. Socially well-adjusted normal people were forced to use email. To help them understand, they were told it's like writing a letter. So manager types the world over decided that the custom in email-land is to add pointless bullshit before and after *every single message*. 
 
 #### simualted email