John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed
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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.
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louder for the people in the back.
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That's a lot
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There is a lot in here that I don't understand.
- What's wrong with Moxie? You mean it's weird he's an emeritus and not part of the board?
- What's "much more questionable" about the other people? From the descriptions on that page they all seem like standup people.
- Could you explain the "relative proximity to some in the US establishment" bit? That was too vague for me to grasp.
- "some have been designating anyone who questions Signal as 'Russian Propaganda' and immediately deflecting about how Telegram is bad, is even more curious." — Who has done this, you mean? And why exactly is it "curious"?
Honestly, there was nothing at all in there that I understood, due to how vague it all was. I would appreciate it if you or someone could fill me in here, because it's important to know who's driving this thing, and if the platform can be trusted. I just want to not go by some vague rumors before I make up my mind.
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The recent Trump is going to hurt his voters video is pretty good.
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My step dad actually got my family on signal YEARS ago and I will never be more thankful.
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When I said bluesky will be the next Twitter did I said Twitter is a good place. Twitter is now bullshit.
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On Reddit I looked at so many posts on one day, on Lemmy I read like 2 posts but go in the comments much more often. Actually I look at more comments than posts, which I find better!
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And here’s how and why it will be enshitified:
