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X suspends account of Navalny's wife (news.sky.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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X suspends account of Navalny's wife::The widow of Alexei Navalny, Yulia Navalnaya, has had her X account restored after it was briefly suspended for unknown reasons. Meanwhile, his brother has been put on Russia's wanted list. Listen to a Daily podcast special on the Russian opposition after Navalny's death as you scroll.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago (1 children)

a lot of people use it just because a lot of people use it...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

This is called the "network effect," so called after the Murderbot novel of the same name (recommended). It's what makes social medias, aggregators, and service platform so "sticky." It's what makes platform-capitalism work.

It also makes nice things work too, ofc.