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I think that this is a really meaningful step. The ability to find community around a conspiracy theory or a wildly unacceptable belief on a mainstream site reinforces that it is valid. If high schoolers discovering QAnon for the first time have to log into a dumpy looking twitter clone, they'll know that they have turned off the highway onto a sketchy back road of the internet.


> they'll know that they have turned off the highway onto a sketchy back road of the internet

...and that just makes it seem cooler and more rebellious.




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