Thread by @ThyConsigliori

Good Morning!

One of the things I'm learning at CloutHub is that the Groups function is very strong.

Not sure why, but it feels a bit more intuitive than the rest of the platform. Come check my Group out!

#MAGAanalysis g.clouthub.com/group/magaanal…

2) This post - which I have now pinned to the group feed - has generated some very fine responses. You'll at least what to read what our little group is saying on point.

g.clouthub.com/post/question-…

3) Now let's talk about the platform itself. I don't remember, shame on me!, if it was a week, or two weeks ago, or so, that I joined CloutHub. Maybe I can check, be right back...

Aha, my first post was this:

clthb.co/sX8Ji21iqDEjbJ…

4) If you click on the link, you'll see that @GenFlynn posted it 2 weeks ago. If you were reading it from my feed - and I don't know how to explain how to do that, yet - you'd see that I posted it 1 week ago. So, it's been a week!

4) For a comparison, never having employed any social media at all at the time, in 2009 when I got started with Facebook it was absolutely crystal clear to me, from day 1, what to do and how to do it. CloutHub is obviously, then, at least 7 times more difficult.

5) So, I'll tell you straight, this is not - at least not yet - a platform for the faint of heart or the impatient of soul. If it is as powerful a medium as I suspect it is, that power is clearly hidden behind a wall of learning curve challenges.

6) If it had existed, and I had attempted to learn this platform's ins and outs even so little as 1 year ago, I'd have shut down my account in hours. It just wouldn't have been worthy of the pain. So, what's different? Why am I committed to this learning curve?

7) Part of it is personal growth. I've learned how to tame the bucking bronco of my impatience, a bit. I've learned that any technology requires an exploratory open mind and all the dedication to the requisite learning curve. That doesn't mean I like it, it just means I know how.

8) I'm not ready to walk you through what I find difficult, and certainly not ready to guide you towards the best steps to take in learning CloutHub. I plan to, however, as soon as I get past the awkward and confused stage I'm still in.

9) What I can tell you is this. So far, I believe their key claims. One, I believe they will not censor me. I have no fear of posting links there, as I now do here at Twitter. As I've shared, I now try to post NO links here. I don't fear they're reading my messages, etc.

10) Their other claim that matters so greatly to me is their call to action. They are crystal clear that their purpose is to provide a place where people can join together around a shared mission, and take that mission into action. They are, they claim, action oriented.

11) That resonates for me. I truly did hope to attain that here at Twitter. And I invested heavily into it, here. It just never gelled. And I'm not talking about the censorship now, or the purge, etc. I am saying that this platform does NOT inspire action.

12) I'm not quite certain that any platform can live up to that high standard. I'm also not certain that I ever came up to speed in learning how to support the rise from talk to action, here. It may well be that I just didn't get that far, all on me, none on Twitter.

13) But the fact that CloutHub makes the claim appeals to me. If their claim is true, then learning how to master their so-difficult interface will be worth the effort. At least, that is my hope. I'll come back to the action I wish to engage, in a moment. Before that...

14) I am happy to share that I've opened a second account at Gab. Just now, I went over there and completed my first posting. They call them gaps, or "your status." Check it out:

gab.com/PatScopelliti/…

15) You can see that my new account is under @PatScopelliti. So, why a second account, which is to ask, why did I shut down the first one? Why go back a second time after that?

16) Allow me to say that trusted friends led me to not trust the Gab platform fully. I had posted some information that they recommended I not post. I attempted to delete those posts, and was unable. That's why I shut the account down. It may have been a technical glitch, but...

17) But I can't abide the employment of trust, and then suffer - for any reason - the inability to delete something I've posted. I believe shutting the account down was wise. Here's how. What I will post now will come through a very different filter. Let's talk about that.

18) Look again at Twitter. I used to post links with absolute freedom, not thinking that Twitter care a fig about what I was posting. Then I got shut down into Twitter Penalty Box for 12 hours the first time, and didn't know why. It took two more penalties to learn why and how.

19) Once my 12 hours were up, I waited another 12 hours and then posted a tweet with a link in it that got me instantly punished into Penalty Box for my second 12 hours. I thought I had it figured out, almost.

20) I mean, I suspected it was the links I was posting that triggered their response. And the penalty was instantaneous, so there had to be some absolute trigger. In the first two instances they told me I'd violated a community standard, but not how I did so.

21) The third time was the key. They had to up the ante by warning me that if I kept violating their community standards I would be suspended permanently. And coyly, they gave me a link explaining what I did wrong. Here is what they told me at that link.

22) Pornography is just fine, here at Twitter. Did you know that? I sure didn't. But I had, they informed crossed the line by posting Revenge Pornography. If you don't know what that is, it's a thing, look it up. It's disgusting, but at Twitter you're on a need-to-know basis.

23) Any of you who know me know I would never post anything remotely like pornography, and as I have always been 100% faithful to my own and only wife, she'd be the only gal I might be seeking pornographic revenge from, were I that sort of guy. I'm not, completely not.

24) Here's what I concluded. The link I'd posted was to a rap video - no sexy girls or any sexual references - of a rich capitalist with penthouses in Hong Kong and NYC, and a yacht, rapping...Let's Take Down The CCP. Here's what Twitter had done, I believe.

25) I concluded that they had tagged that video, falsely, in their category of Revenge Porn. It was a lie, a bureaucratic lie. It was the kind that's hard to catch them out on. Discovering that was a turning point for me, as you might imagine.

26) To post in any social medium is to engage in some form of trust. I actually hadn't put all that together, quite yet until then. Consider their power. They can categorize anything they wish. If their AI was stronger, they'd suspend me right now for writing about this.

27) I don't believe they will. I don't think their algorithms are quite able to read what I write in text, as I am right now, and determine whether what I write is acceptable or not. I think they'd have suspended me by now if their AI was that strong.

28) The rule against posting links here was the beginning of my new trust filter. I'm not sure, maybe I should call it a distrust filter, what do you think? By any name, there's one more aspect of my Twitter Trust Filter I'll share, again. I no longer employ DM rooms, at all.

29) I watched as they decimated the group membership of the rooms I used to participate in, and I watched who got purged and who didn't, and which rooms were devastated more and which less, etc. I also got guidance from friends that the DM rooms were no longer safe.

30) So, let's say that my only positive element in my trust filter for Twitter is textual posts. At Gab, I have more confidence than here, but I will still be very careful there. At CloutHub, my trust filter has no current negatives. I have no fears or qualms there, at all, yet.

31) Whoops! I forgot @KateScopelliti, my one and only's wise counsel to keep my threads down to 30 or less. I'll let go for now, then. If you're at Gab, do follow my new account @PatScopelliti. And if you're not at CloutHub, I understand, but I believe it's worth a try.

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