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numb3r_5ev3n) wrote2022-11-22 12:03 pm
numb3r_5ev3n) wrote2022-11-22 12:03 pm
The Great Scattering
Going back to this post (which I think occurred in the wake of the Muskrat's initial bid to acquire Twitter, or the Keffals vs Kiwifarms War, or both.)
I complain all the time about the "Walled Garden Effect" which has occurred from the ascendancy of social media giants centralizing most internet activity into a few huge nodes. And I hope I don't need to explain to anyone here why acquisition of a major social media platform by a Tycoon should be the opposite of what we want to be happening to the internet, especially as Twitter has been used by peoples and governments to organize and disseminate info and support each other.
I mean there is a reason why *no one* in all of this shakeup has been suggesting everyone go back to Facebook, and that has everything to do with Mark Zuckerberg being an insufferable, off-putting stooge whose mismanagement has contributed to actual genocides. And Elon Musk is no better, and has the potential to be even worse.
At this point, it's obvious that Musk being a so called "free speech absolutist" means only speech that he approves of, or is not critical of him in any way.
I'm actually enjoying Mastadon so far (once I read a few tutorials that people I know who were trying to get me to join kept tossing in my general direction) And this. This is what I was talking about in that previous post I linked. This sentiment exactly. This is what we should be aiming for:
Twitter should not be controlled by one out-of-touch weirdo with money. This also applied when Jack ran it. One of my last tweets that "did numbers" recalled the time in which he was repeatedly asked not to let Nazis hassle the user base, and he went away and fasted and meditated about it at an all-rich-people retreat in the Himalayas, before returning to explain why he wouldn't ban Nazis in terms that made him sound like Sad Old Jeff Bridges from Tron Legacy, making sage-sounding but bullshit excuses about why he can't just go and do the right thing Because Of Reasons.
In an ideal world it would remain a central hub of information/current events, a place to organize, and to seek and render support.
As for Tumblr: In its current incarnation, it has been criticized for supposedly being impenetrable by anyone who is not in on the current in-joke meme; to the point where it almost feels like you clicked on another timeline altogether - and it works best that way, to be honest. I'm breaking kayfabe for a second to say that I think the Goncharov phenomenon is an example of Tumblr living its best life. This is what Tumblr is for.
Unfortunately it kind of developed a reputation for the kind of "discourse" in which, for example, people with disabilities were accused of being ableist for seaking out treatments that made them more functional, etc. (like, "getting help for your eating disorder is fatophobic, and literal genocide against fat people!" etc.) Except the running joke is that most of those types of discourse-havers just ended up going to Twitter in 2018.
The internet is still figuring itself out, and we're watching the implosion of one of its shittiest Main Characters in real time.
Current Mood:
I complain all the time about the "Walled Garden Effect" which has occurred from the ascendancy of social media giants centralizing most internet activity into a few huge nodes. And I hope I don't need to explain to anyone here why acquisition of a major social media platform by a Tycoon should be the opposite of what we want to be happening to the internet, especially as Twitter has been used by peoples and governments to organize and disseminate info and support each other.
I mean there is a reason why *no one* in all of this shakeup has been suggesting everyone go back to Facebook, and that has everything to do with Mark Zuckerberg being an insufferable, off-putting stooge whose mismanagement has contributed to actual genocides. And Elon Musk is no better, and has the potential to be even worse.
At this point, it's obvious that Musk being a so called "free speech absolutist" means only speech that he approves of, or is not critical of him in any way.
I'm actually enjoying Mastadon so far (once I read a few tutorials that people I know who were trying to get me to join kept tossing in my general direction) And this. This is what I was talking about in that previous post I linked. This sentiment exactly. This is what we should be aiming for:
Twitter should not be controlled by one out-of-touch weirdo with money. This also applied when Jack ran it. One of my last tweets that "did numbers" recalled the time in which he was repeatedly asked not to let Nazis hassle the user base, and he went away and fasted and meditated about it at an all-rich-people retreat in the Himalayas, before returning to explain why he wouldn't ban Nazis in terms that made him sound like Sad Old Jeff Bridges from Tron Legacy, making sage-sounding but bullshit excuses about why he can't just go and do the right thing Because Of Reasons.
In an ideal world it would remain a central hub of information/current events, a place to organize, and to seek and render support.
As for Tumblr: In its current incarnation, it has been criticized for supposedly being impenetrable by anyone who is not in on the current in-joke meme; to the point where it almost feels like you clicked on another timeline altogether - and it works best that way, to be honest. I'm breaking kayfabe for a second to say that I think the Goncharov phenomenon is an example of Tumblr living its best life. This is what Tumblr is for.
Unfortunately it kind of developed a reputation for the kind of "discourse" in which, for example, people with disabilities were accused of being ableist for seaking out treatments that made them more functional, etc. (like, "getting help for your eating disorder is fatophobic, and literal genocide against fat people!" etc.) Except the running joke is that most of those types of discourse-havers just ended up going to Twitter in 2018.
The internet is still figuring itself out, and we're watching the implosion of one of its shittiest Main Characters in real time.
Current Mood:
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Mori: Wait, that's not also Twitter?
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Then, when called out on it, you end up getting accused of being self-righteous. I shared my thoughts on inspiration porn on one platform, and the two comments I received acted like it's no big deal and that I was blowing it out of proportion. I was told I'm seeing nefarious intent where there is none (completely ignoring the fact I never said as such). Someone else told me they planned on enjoying inspiration porn because it puts their life "in perspective".