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vaccines about COVID about government response you know, and then Marjorie Taylor green over the weekend getting permanently banned from Twitter I guess it for people of that political persuasion. It's now become a seems like a badge of honor to get banned from Twitter. So then you can make a big stink and move to another Twitter clone so what they did was they all moved to get her I don't know why. What happened to parlor? I mean, I remember the whole stink about parlor after

the election. So here's parlor. By the way. I'm this is also on YouTube. And I'm gonna see if I put up on my Facebook page as well on the did I get I think it's on Kevin Bay a my Kevin Bay Facebook page, but I don't remember either way. It'll be up there. parlor calm and getter.com They're both basically Twitter clones. And you have all these. Suppose it free speech advocates and a lot of them are free speech advocates. But these are mostly conservative people. Like, you

know, Candace Owens, and what the heck is her name? I should know it already. Let's see. Let me see what I got here. Gina Carano. You got Matt Walsh. I don't even know how to pronounce this guy's name Jack. Paul sobic. Paul sobic. I don't know. Tim Poole, Dave Rubin. Iver come in Mary Katharine ham. Joe Rogan's there. So I mean, a lot of conservative, more conservative ways. I wouldn't even call Joe Rogan a conservative necessarily. But people who not right now are

associated with being conservative. You know, they're, they've opened up accounts over on Twitter. You know, if they're not kicked off of Twitter, you can guarantee I can guarantee that they're just going to continue to be on Twitter. But why? Why would you want to move from one siloed platform to another silo platform? You know, all you have is are the same

constraints and a different and a different venue. Now, you know, maybe they won't get kicked off for saying more conservative things, but and I'm sure they will, you know, they'll be more open to having some liberal voices, but the

liberal voices aren't going to go there. So what we have is this bifurcation, this split a free speech, go over here and listen to this is almost what it looks like what happened with cable news, go over here if you want to hear the conservative side, the conservative voices and go over here if you want to hear the progressive side now. I can even call them liberals because they're not liberals. They're progressive. And you go here and you get this view, you go over there, you get that

view. And somewhere you're supposed to find the truth. But

my problem is why go to another platform? You know, and I say this ironically, as I as I post on YouTube, and I post on Facebook and I also So use Twitter, I, you know, I signed up for Twitter account, just wait to see what the heck is going on over there, I doubt that I will use it just like parlor when we already have all the technologies that all this stuff run that the technology is that all of these things run in the web, the internet, that's the platform, that's where you need

to go. And what we should do what everybody should do, is learn about. And it's not hard anymore, it's very easy, you don't have to get very technical at all, to start your own website to get your own domain name. And while yes, you can always be deeply deep platformed, even if you are not on any of these services, so like, I have my own website, I host my my podcast files, I self host them you know, I have to pay, you know, what are the connections between me and what

you're hearing? You know, first, the direct line in a linear fashion first from, from my voice to the computer from the computer across the internet. So I have to first go through my own ISP, which is spectrum cable. So that's the first connection that can be cut in and D platform me. And while Yeah, I could go to you know, I could use my Verizon wireless connection, but they can also do that for me and keep me off. You know, and yes, I can move around, I can go to public Wi Fi

spots, and I can do all this kind of stuff. But anyway, that the first point of failure is your ISP, your connection to the Internet. The next one is wherever you you are hosting your file. So I have my you know, my personal website, Kevin bay.com. And that is hosted on DreamHost. So I pay, you know, an annual fee for a virtual server. And I installed WordPress there where I host my own blog plus some other blog properties. It's also where I host the mp3 files for this

podcast. And they have Terms of Service. You know, I haven't read through them recently. You know, but I'm sure it covers legal content. But it's more broad based because you know, websites, generally, are policed by the people who operate the websites. So that's the next point of failure is the service where I host my website. But that's it, there's no other overlords. That's it. Those are the only choke points between me

and whoever's listening. Where if you're on Twitter Yeah, you can open up another account, and you can jump through all the hoops and, and while it's a concentrated place for eyeballs, you know, you are subject to the political whims of whoever runs the company, it's their company, it's their platform, they could do with it what they want. And that's not to say it's not the same thing with DreamHost. But as far as I can tell, across the history of the internet and websites, hosting companies

hosting websites, generally are content agnostic. They don't care. You know, as long as you're not hosting illegal content, like child porn, or, you know, some crazy, crazy stuff, advocating, you know, the overthrow of the government. I'm sure even advocating the overthrow of the government might even be okay. But let's just say, you know, you're not making terroristic threats and all that kind of stuff. You're

keeping it just opinion base, like what I'm doing here. Or providing information from whatever it is, that's your expertise and what people can do, okay, and it's how you how you get ahold of podcasts is using, you know, WordPress, and all modern websites, and I haven't checked out Wix or anything like that, you know, one of the other, more popular places where people make websites or SquareSpace. Generally, an RSS feed is published. And it's done automatically, especially if

it's a blog, and an RSS feed. Okay, it's simply a file that any modern browser or you know, any, there's there are things called RSS readers, or podcast apps. Podcast apps are essentially feed readers that you know, read the media specific enough. information and can playback the audio and in most cases video as well. So there's no gatekeeper between the content producer and the

content, consumer. You don't have to go through, you don't have to worry about getting shadow banned on Twitter, you won't have to worry about getting shadow banned on getter or parlor or half having to worry about, you know, something controversial that you said, and now they're going to take down your account, you are your account, the internet is the

platform, all you got to do is access it. So imagine now if you if, you know, there used to be a lot of feed readers, Google got rid of there's no Google Reader. That would have been the best platform or app, let's say, because the web and the internet

are the platforms. But the the app and our simple RSS feed reader could replace Twitter, Facebook, you know, any of the social media, apps and platforms, the only thing I really can't replace is something like YouTube because of video, video content takes up a lot of space, and takes up a lot of bandwidth. So that requires significant equipment.

But, you know, using RSS, and RSS is an old technology. Let's see here, initial release, RSS point nine, Netscape March 15 1999 22 years ago, RSS 2.0, released March 32,009 12 years ago. And if you don't know what RSS is just go to Wikipedia, they got a you know, a decent rundown of it. It stands for you know, Real Simple Syndication, or they they have here Really Simple Syndication. And it's just this it's a text file. It's

called XML extensible markup language. And it's auto generated by you know, like WordPress and other website, software. And the reader just takes a look at this XML file. You know, you don't you don't have to know how to you can learn how to put together it's not that hard to put it together. It's, it's, it's not hard to put together but it's a pain in the ass to do it manually. You know, but it's just text and it's not that difficult to read once you know how to how to read it.

But it's, it's old and it's it's what? It's what connects people with podcasting and podcasting 2.0. And what they're doing at podcast index.org. They have extended RSS, okay, that they've added things to RSS to an older technology that allows for transcripts, you know, so basically closed captioning in your in your podcast, app, closed captioning in your podcast app. And for chapters, so you can divide up your podcast in the chapter so people can jump around to the

particular content that they want. And images links. So it's way more dynamic than it used to be just for podcasts. It's sort of like watching the live blog stream across your podcast app. There also trying to implement cross app, commenting, which would bring more Twitter like function, because you could have a conversation thread for particular podcast. And, you know, I would dare to say you could do that also, for blog posts, so using a reader and you can have cross app commenting in

a reader app. So that way, that would make it way more like Twitter and now there are open source Twitter clones as well like Mastodon and podcast index. That org has their own Mastodon instance. And it works just like Twitter. And I think for right now, the cross app commenting uses some open source, Twitter like clones for the commenting But you know, imagine that it's the web using the web and your own personal website and RSS feeds. I, you know, I wish I was better at explaining this stuff.

But in my mind, I can see it, I can see, you know, there would be no gatekeepers between you and the content you want to consume and the comments you want to make you know, and, and with also what they're what they're putting together to on podcasting 2.0 is value for value model, which is streaming, Bitcoin micro payments. Now, you can, you can stream micro payments, or you can not stream micro payments, you can do one, you can do anything you want.

But, you know, you can also donate or pay, you know, a, what they call a boost, which is, you know, say you you like something in particular, so you can send a boost of 100 Satoshis. Or what's called a boost to gram, where it's a paid a boost, but with a message inside. So you can, you can do that and communicate directly and you can, it's more guaranteed that the person you want to reach will read your message, if you're sending them

a little bit of a payment or a tip, as Adam curry hates. Along with the message, it's more likely to be read even if it's negative. You know, but I can see if we can if we can, if somebody I wish I could write code and write apps. But I can, I can see it where the value value for value gets implemented within a blog. Cross app commenting can get implemented within a blog within the RSS feed, using the RSS feed to facilitate all of this stuff. And then the internet is your Twitter. The

internet is your go getter. You're a parlor, you're not limited to that information silo. And then somebody like Dr. Malone doesn't have to worry about getting deep platformed from Twitter, and moving on to another platform. He just keeps his website open and anybody who doesn't want to consume his content just doesn't have to go there. You don't have to see it. There's nobody there to silence you.

Anyway to me to get to get to the future of communications and the Internet and the internet, and especially freedom of speech across the United States as well as the world. We need to learn more and get back to RSS. And that's all I got