Here be dragons

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Here be dragons is in general a warning of potential dangers or dangerous areas, originally on physical maps, on the IndieWeb it refers to particularly problematic silos that usually formed in response to entire sets of abusive behaviors and accounts being banned from Twitter.

Examples:

• Dlive
  • 2020-01-08 NYTimes: Pro-Trump Mob Livestreamed Its Rampage, and Made Money Doing It / A site called Dlive, where rioters broadcast from the Capitol, is benefiting from the growing exodus of right-wing users from Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
• Gab
• Gettr
  • Features: max 777 char notes, photos, max 3min videos, reposts, trending topics, Twitter PESOS
• Parler
  • https://sirfrogsworth.tumblr.com/post/636498678889185280/sirfrogsworth-sirfrogsworth-solid-rules-no
• Truth Social
  • 2022-04-03 BBC: Trump's Truth Social app branded a disaster
  • 2022-04-04 Rolling Stone: Trump’s Truth Social App Is Bombing So Hard That Top Executives Are Quitting / The former president is furious — and confused — about nobody wanting to join his failing social media platform

    Truth Social … launched to compete with Twitter and Facebook has been such a disaster since its launch in February that two of its top executives have resigned

See Also

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_be_dragons
• https://generalist.academy/2020/06/26/there-be-dragons/ — @The Generalist