I guess I don't have a problem with a social media site blocking speech, we don't have to use them, if they are too draconian, nobody will.

But IRL it gets harder if ISPs get involved. I'm more interested in democratized platforms with privacy baked in, if you want free speech you might have to at least give the orgs you depend on for access plausible deniability

A room full of people in charge of the most power nation wouldn't fall prey to something like false dichotomy, during an important address to said nation? Would they...?

I agree that free speech is free speech, the private org that runs the platform has a veto, the assumption that these platforms are the equivilant of stepping into the street to stand on a box is a not realistic.

Even HN is only quasi-free speech, there are rules that will get one censored.

If you love freedom, there are mailing lists and other platforms but they arnt as high on dopamine and the audience gets a little bit more sketch.

An interesting experiment, I think I'm too uncomfortable leaking data I don't yet know why someone would curate to me free of charge until I knew. If there was a FOSS suite like Home Assistant that would do a few of those things I might try it out, especially the weather (I would add air quality) correlation to mood and other subjective states.

I've used Zim for this over the last 20 years. Its a mess but with search I can find what I'm looking for if I was good enough. For especially tricky trouble shooting I'll put in each theory and strike it out so at least if I stop documenting I'll see what didn't work before I gave up or succeeded and quit documenting.