Multiply Connect to beat banning.
Don't depend on one social media platform. Have a platform where you have a low risk to being banned. UPDATE 1:
UPDATE1: Created this platform to connect on. https://saidit.net/s/GayPartisan/
BEFORE I START THIS NEWSLETTER
I think everyone knows Medium is not a site to join.
TWITTER BANNING GOES ON AND ON
Littlest HOMOsexual had 14.9K followers. He was suspended for a period of time. If you check his twitter identity there is no alternative place to connect. He seems to be back online now.
https://twitter.com/HomoLittlest
Though I am happy he is back, he is basically supporting his abuser, Twitter, by filling Twitter with content.
I did find that he is on nitter at https://nitter.moomoo.me/HomoLittlest I had to Google him to find it. The link isn’t on his Twitter account. I don’t know for a fact that this is him. It appears to be nothing more than a mirror image of his Twitter account and might not be working if he was suspended on Twitter or that he actually created this. There is no link to it from his Twitter account.
If there was a permanent ban on him, I don’t know if I could find him again.
That there needs to be multiple connections generally isn’t comprehended.
FACEBOOK DELETES POST IN THE FACEBOOK GROUP GAY PARTISAN.
Without warning or explanation, I couldn’t post to the group. Then I found out they didn’t approve of an oil painting I had used for one of the newsletters. [Link to the newsletter at the end of this post.]
However, when I was trying to post and it wouldn’t work, the feedback was misleading, stating that it was a technical error. See the red lettering in the picture below.
There was no one you could contact on this. The general attitude of Facebook is like it or drop dead.
I am moving off of Facebook. I am planning on using Gay art in my newsletters and I don’t want to worry what the Facebook censors might do. When you post on Facebook you are feeding Facebook who is abusing you and your reward for doing so might just be getting banned.
I also find Facebook members often really aren’t that active and you don’t reach the younger demographic.
I am on Twitter and this newsletter. Not doing Instagram either since Facebook owns that. Looking into TikTok. The Facebook groups will remain, but each post will have a comment with a link to something off Facebook. I will still post to some other Facebook groups, but it will only be links to the Substack newsletter.
One final thing. When I was posting a comment on each post in the Facebook Group Gay Partisan, after about 20 or 30 posts Facebook decided I was doing too much commenting, even though I was the administrator of this group. So it would block me from commenting in my own group. So, it took days to make sure each post had at least one comment as to where to go off Facebook.
If you get into Facebook, you might find it hard to salvage what you have when Facebook shuts you down.
https://twitter.com/PartisanGay This is one place I am at now.
DON’T DEPEND ON ONE SOCIAL PLATFORM
The people who own and run these platforms have no concern or sense of obligation to those who provide content for their platforms and make them a success.
Tumblr was really big and a lot of adult content went on it. It got sold and then sold again and then Verizon just decided to cancel it and not sell it. It had sold originally for billions, Verizon sold it for $3 million. The loss was small change for them.
OnlyFans was built to a large extent on adult content providers and then decided to ban adult content possibly because of pressure it felt from banks and payment processors. Then OnlyFans realized that it would be nothing without the adult content providers and reversed its decision.
By the way, it isn’t only the Christian Right which is trying to suppress pornography, but it is also driven by feminists.
Further platform might not want to ban you but they might get banned themselves. Parler was originally hosted on the Amazon cloud, and under pressure Amazon just pulled their plug. Reports from others come in on abrupt cessations of service by hosts.
COUNTER MEASURES
I joined Parler, not entirely happy with having to do so, but we can’t depend on one medium to continue. I am not sure if this Parler account is really that useful. Would a lot of people want to join Parler to be multiply connected? Don’t think so, but I think in the current environment we need to consider actions we might not consider before. At least if someone is searching for me they can find me.
https://parler.com/Edwardsebesta
Maybe the strategy is to have a presence on reddit/Twitter/Facebook/Instagram which people would be comfortable joining and so that one platform banning isn’t going to cut you off. However, they might have some tag applied to you so all these sites might in coordination ban you. I think a widely distributed presence might be necessary.
I think one online existence needs to be outside the establishment platforms.
Another issue is that follows on one platform aren’t necessarily going to follow on another. I don’t think the 14.9K followers of Littlest HOMOsexual are going to want to join three other social platforms they aren’t already using. A lot of young people won’t join Facebook.
Having these other social platforms would do some good as placeholders to be connected to, but it is also more stuff to manage and more rules to consider, but it might just work to have a placeholder to have people to attach to.
I strongly urge people to subscribe to my Substack rather than having to connect to multiple things. But I also will be keeping the other things as placeholders. It is not impossible that Substack will get acquired by some company and then after it is sold a few times, a company that then owns it starts shutting you down.
CONCLUSION
Start having a contingency plan for what would happen if you are banned. At least a search on Google or Bing should be able to find you. Also, occasionally let your readers know of your back up site and the contingency plan.
This was the newsletter for which the post on Facebook was banned.