ML2 @mathlover@qoto.org

The arguments for remaining on twitter to “fight” remind me of the gambling adage that the house always wins. “Fighting” there is like gambling and thinking you’ll eventually beat the house. But even if you win $10,000 at the slot machine it’s because it’s in the casino’s bigger interests to give you $10,000.

A viral post from a progressive helps prop up an increasingly reactionary company. @jeffjarvis

@Jelaniya @jeffjarvis I agree. It's a lost cause under the current management and policies, and the house always wins. Twitter isn't a country we can defend by repelling invaders. It's, ultimately, just a web site owned by an increasingly hostile billionaire. The only way to win is to move elsewhere.

I still visit, but just to find friends to tell them where I've moved.

Go home, error code message, you are drunk.🤣

Funny how if billionaires leave b/c Govt raises billionaire taxes, it’s Govt’s fault—but as teachers leave because Govt won’t raise teacher salaries, it’s the teachers fault.🤔

Protecting billionaires & exploiting teachers in poverty is class warfare against working people.

Yearly reminder to not give money to the Salvation Army. It is not a charity, it's a fundamentalist Christian organization that supports anti-queer policies. Support mutual aid resources instead.

#SalvationArmy

Mastodon is like TikTok, except for people who are overwhelmed by videos of extroverts, have paranoid theories about algorithmic soul manipulation, and/or do social media exclusively while trying to put kids to sleep.

After 5 years enjoying a quieter version of this thing, it is a thing of beauty to behold it really starting to come to life.

Reportedly the personal data (name and phone number) of over 262 milion #WhatsApp users (1/8th of the userbase) has been leaked and is being sold online

https://youtube.com/watch?v=LCbq47O7zsc

#security #privacy #dataLeak #xp

If you enjoy someone's post on #Mastodon go ahead and click the star. If someone tells you that's meaningless because there's no #algorithm, ignore them. Sure, boost the post too if you want others to also see the post, but don't think telling someone you like what they posted is somehow unimportant. In real life I don't tell someone, "good job," or "well said," or "I love that," for the sake of some algorithm, I do it because I'm human and they are too. It's fundamental to being truly social.

The most important thing thing about the #fediverse is it finally brings web sites, social media, content sharing ,politics, creativity and authorship as together as they've ever been. It can and should give rise to a true laboratory and proving grounds for exploring and refining global cultural communications in every respect, and in every field. If we don't take advantage of this Renaissance moment, we may miss the greatest opportunity to matter that our generation will ever have.

Huh, http://post.news founder who knew nothing about social media, suddenly discovers that moderation isn’t just a word that starts with “m.” If they’re already struggling with < 50,000, what’s 5 million users gonna look like?

Ursula K. Le Guin

#quotes #literature #books #imagination

Does blasphemy offend you?

Been trying to keep an open mind about Post but, yeesh, it has a lot of warning signs right out of the gate, and I don't mean beta bugs. Comments run by OpenWeb? Investment by Marc Andreessen? No way to know who is reposting your content? No way to moderate comments on your posts?

It doesn't seem buggy, it seems structurally unsound in ways that will be hard to fix.

https://twitter.com/Chronotope/status/1596224339355262977
https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/1596606967195533312

@atomicpoet YMS did a 2.5 hour deep dive into this topic. It's a really good video if you have some time to kill
https://youtu.be/G5B1mIfQuo4

Disney is definitely a soulless corporation that used public domain material to make some of their most iconic films and then actively prevents people from doing the same now.

@atomicpoet As much as I dislike Disney, and as much as I'm always up for calling out blatant rip offs, in this particular instance this accusations has been thoroughly debunked.

The Youtuber Your Movie Sucks made an excellent video essay going through each of the levied accusations against the Lion King in excrutiating detail.

Not having a go at you or anything, I'm just a fan of critical thinking, and don't like seeing common misconceptions spread needlessly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5B1mIfQuo4&t=8191s&ab_channel=YourMovieSucksDOTorg

Elmo is suspending left leaning accounts left and right.

https://twitter.com/stevanzetti/status/1596208534777397248?s=12&t=BJlXS2C215FpDAMICoWt7g

How well do you know the Online Safety Bill?

Graham Smith presents:

“a miscellany of statements about the Bill: familiar slogans and narratives, a few random assertions, some that I have dreamed up to tease out lesser-known features. True, false, half true, indeterminate?”

Read on to find out:

https://www.cyberleagle.com/2022/11/test-your-knowledge-of-online-safety.html #OnlineSafetyBill

I’ve been using Mastodon since Saturday, but I am going out on a limb with a prediction: Mastodon (or the Mastodon model) is the future of social media.

It has the potential of curing the worst evils of social media and creating a genuine and workable public sphere.

I will develop this idea into an essay as soon as I can grab the time, hopefully today.

@jeffjarvis
It's deeply frustrating watching my friends who ought to know better—journalists, tech policy people, etc.—acknowledging that Twitter's on the outs, but then getting excited about moving to yet another closed, proprietary platform.