The central importance of curation...

To a significant degree, the core of many internet products like social media is not access to information, but rather curation of information. All the information is out there somewhere if you want it, but no one has the time to dig it all up or even a good way to know its there to be uncovered.

Along these lines, I perceive some travails of Gettr to be the fruit of deep contradictions in its mission. I understand concerns about the power produced by content moderation + market power, yet it is inevitably that a truly open and unmoderated app will be full of Sonic the Hedgehog porn because that is the full unvarnished reality of what lurks behind the curation that services like Twitter and Facebook provide.