John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed
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The charm is why I keep coming back. Especially when it comes to the Lemmy Charm comments for lemmynsfw.com.
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Signal has been questionable for years. The way it's been pushed hardly, and how Moxie is emeritus, while much more questionable people are in control, doesn't fill one with confidence, and does ring some alarm bells. The relative proximity to some in the US establishment should be enough to do that. And the way some have been designating anyone who questions Signal as "Russian Propaganda" and immediately deflecting about how Telegram is bad, is even more curious.
Frankly, I would trust something like Wire more than Signal. And there are other options too.
Ideally, something with good security/privacy and is fully P2P would become popular. But those apps/networks never make it mainstream, which is unfortunate.
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The Picard Maneuver "Am I joke to you?"
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Talk to John Oliver then.
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They want to make crime fighting more accessible to the police...
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Didnt Dorsey already walk from it and gave the reason that it is headed the same way twitter is. Bluesky is being pushed by capitalists because it is a for profit company just like twitter and facebook.
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https://www.piratewires.com/p/interview-with-jack-dorsey-mike-solana
thats how its creator feels too.
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You are taking "replace Twitter" as an appellation, when in reality it was intended as a condemnation.
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There are plenty of naive people on here also shilling bluesky over Mastodon.
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Over or in addition to? I haven't seen anyone say BlueSky over Mastodon.
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Get your eyes checked.
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That's all wyverns. Reddit is wrong.
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For fuck's sake, no need to say ableist shit like that. I'm just saying I haven't seen it, not that 100% hasn't happened.
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Bizarre that you and that other guy thought "will become the next Twitter" was some sort of praise. It's not.
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I think that it's just words & images on a screen that we could easily ignore like people did before, and people are indulging a grandiose conceit by thinking that moderation is that important or serves any greater cause than the interests of moderators.
On social media that seems to be to serve the consumers, by which I mean the advertisers & commercial interests who pay for the attention of users.
While the old internet approach of ignoring, gawking at the freakshow, or ridiculing/flaming toxic & hateful shit worked fine then resulting in many people disengaging, ragequitting, or going outside to do something better, that's not great for advertisers protecting their brand & wanting to keep people pliant & unchallenged as they stay engaged in their uncritical filter bubbles & echo chambers.With old internet, safety didn't wasn't internet nanny, thought police shit, and stop burning my virgin eyes & ears.
It was an anonymous handle, not revealing personally identifying information (a/s/l?), not falling for scams & giving out payment information (unless you're into that kinky shit).
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I think it's more bizarre that you think "same corpo bullshit that Twitter is" is some kind of praise.
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If you don't agree with the person above you, maybe don't start your comment with
I'm wondering this too.
Accusing people of being shills for commenting that bluesky is going to become (shitty) like twitter is out of pocket.
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CIA. A rehash of the crypto ag strategy
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Toxicity doesn't "work fine," it's contagious and destructive. For projects, it slows progress. For communities in general, it reinforces bad behavior and pushes out newcomers, leading to more negative spaces, isolation, and stagnation, just off the top of my head. These were issues in older communities just as they are in modern ones.
I don't see why we should abandon moderation for your benefit, at the expense of people who care.
