Matt Blaze on Nostr: It's sometimes difficult to remember that communications platforms, including social ...
It's sometimes difficult to remember that communications platforms, including social media platforms like this one, attract a very wide variety of users with a wide range of circumstances. The same systems we might use only for trivial chitchat are likely also being used by political dissidents, labor organizers, and others for whom mistakes can have very serious consequences.
Making social media platforms reliably usable is important, even if it might
not seem so to us personally.
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