• nivenkos@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      I like that you can follow scientists and authors directly at the source though.

      • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.ee
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        9 months ago

        For what? Is your life in any way any meaningfully different? Why is it important to be connected to people that you don’t know, will never know, and will never interact with? Wouldn’t a better expenditure of energy go towards fostering relationships with people in your community?

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              At least it’s easier.

              I think Mastodon kinda has the same setup too, but they had all the issues with server-level cascading blocklists and stuff that put me off.

              I don’t want to be blocked from seeing the posts of someone I’m interested in on another server just because the admin of my server refuses to block another server which refuses to block posts from servers where some users have posted “offensive” content, etc. - like it’s so many levels of separation it’s ridiculous.

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                yeah the blocklists were a mistake, instead of the interconnected new internet we just got even worse social bubbles and isolation, the only difference from current social networks is that it’s not algorithms doing it, but admins.

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            9 months ago

            Message board isn’t social media. I don’t follow any of you fucks. I don’t give a shit.

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              9 months ago

              Then why complain about what another person decides to waste time on the Internet while you’re wasting time on the Internet? I’m replying to you while taking a shit so that’s multitasking.

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              9 months ago

              Message board isn’t social media.

              Social. What we’re doing now.

              Jazzhands Media!

              Facebook is just a message board with different features.

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      9 months ago

      It was by no means perfect, but it did become the defacto town square. The Arab Spring was facilitated in part through Twitter and George Floyd related protests were arranged, amplified and shared through Twitter.

      There’s plenty of incompetence in Musk, but a significant part of this “effort” was deliberate, as a favor to other like minded billionaires upset and frightened that the people had a working, maturing megaphone. They needed that to be broken, if not fully silenced, and musk was the pathetic piece of shit with daddy issues that the other old money billionaires could convince to do the work here as an attempt to gain their favor.

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      9 months ago

      Which is why I don’t understand why the likes of Blue Sky and Mastodon try and copy it. It’s a terrible idea.