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If you get cancer from smoking, it's not the tobacco's industry's fault. If you get shot in a classroom, it's not the gun seller's fault.
...yes? that's the point.
The libertarian's point of view?
Ask HN: What interesting people are you following on Mastodon?
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Re: Ask HN: What interesting people are you following on Mastodon?
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People need to see this play out again in order to rule out the possibility that the problems Twitter had and caused were just due to that particular platform, in that particular scenario. If Mastodon (or any of the other alternatives) go down the same road, they'll begin to wonder if the cause may be something deeper. But, they won't arrive at that conclusion by abstraction, or else they would have already. Another…
I admire your positive attitude, but facebook nor snapchat nor tiktok have shown any other trend. "Social" media are social in name only. > else they would have already. Except it doesn't work that way. People are some mixture of dumb, greedy and vain. > Another possibility is it'll work out great. What would be the positive outcome? Preferably one that wasn't heralded 20 years ago and has not borne out.
I'm a pessimist too, however you may be discounting the effect of capitalism in your analysis. To me it seems reasonable that efforts of a group of cooperatives instead of a group of for-profit companies could lead to a different result.
Of course there are and will also be highly negative effects, but the hope is they will be more easily isolated as a result of many cooperatives taking action to exclude those negative effects and their propagaters, rather than rely on policies and practices of a small number of profit-seeking companies.
Re: Ask HN: What interesting people are you following on Mastodon?
#53I know this is asking about people, but following hashtags are where it's at. And it's a great way to find people, besides. Here's mine, for example, a giveaway cross section of my interests... #linux #unix #weather #bendoregon #orwx #railroad #history #caving #caves #seti #train #motorcycle #bicycle #openstreetmap #osm #amtrak #railfan #nasa #usgs #hacking #computerscience #math #programmerhumor (some real groaners)…
Tags are the way, the whole ethos of federation is about not being a sheep who needs to participate in some self-important global cult of personality to feel like they matter. Just follow your interests.
Masto newbie here, how do you follow hashtags?
Re: Ask HN: What interesting people are you following on Mastodon?
#54I know this is asking about people, but following hashtags are where it's at. And it's a great way to find people, besides. Here's mine, for example, a giveaway cross section of my interests... #linux #unix #weather #bendoregon #orwx #railroad #history #caving #caves #seti #train #motorcycle #bicycle #openstreetmap #osm #amtrak #railfan #nasa #usgs #hacking #computerscience #math #programmerhumor (some real groaners)…
fedi.lynnesbian.space has been gone for a while, and no way that wasn't a shitposting account
Re: Ask HN: What interesting people are you following on Mastodon?
#55Just wanted to share a tool (Chrome extension), that has made following people on Mastodon much easier. Mastodon View Profile: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mastodon-profile-r... Basically you click to view someone's profile, then click this extension's button in your toolbar and it will take you to YOUR instance, where you can follow that person with just one click (no copy+paste+search)
Not a Chrome user, but thanks for creating this. I generally find Mastodon's UX better than its reputation, but following from the web is terrible.
Just a clarification: I did not create this, just sharing it ;-)
Re: Ask HN: What interesting people are you following on Mastodon?
#56Absolutely nobody. I refuse to play in some capricious individual's walled garden. After Elon's acquisition, twitter became good enough for me.
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Re: Ask HN: What interesting people are you following on Mastodon?
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tags are the way, the whole ethos of federation is about not being a sheep who needs to participate in some self-important global cult of personality to feel like they matter. Just follow your interests.
Masto newbie here, how do you follow hashtags?
In the standard web client, search for the hash tag (including the initial `#`) in the "Search or paste URL" form in the top-left corner. Hash tags matching your search will appear just below that form. Click on one you want to follow. A column of toots with that hash tag will appear. At the top of the column on the right-hand side is a small person icon with a "+" in it. Click on that, and you will be following that tag.
Seems like there ought to be a simpler way. I just kind of stumbled into this approach.
Re: Ask HN: What interesting people are you following on Mastodon?
#59Absolutely nobody. I refuse to play in some capricious individual's walled garden. After Elon's acquisition, twitter became good enough for me.
But...
Nevermind.
Re: Ask HN: What interesting people are you following on Mastodon?
#60Nobody. I'm not interested in social media at all.