This didn't even get through the first paragraph still seeming like it was rational in anyway. Just more histrionics.
Bye, Twitter
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#112Is Elon on Mastodon?
There's been a lot folks suggesting that twitter move to the fediverse/activitypub. If he did that then, yes, he would be on mastodon and twitter would become the largest mastodon server overnight.
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What’s the big deal? Isn’t this person free to choose where they spend their time? If they dont like Twitter they can leave. Isn’t that what freedom is all about? Seems to me that many on the right don’t actually care about freedom… but more about their ability to subject others to their ideas… apparently freedom is the right of republicans to force themselves on others and restrain their critics from leaving. What o…
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#114Nice. I've always been a firm believer that you haven't _really_ left a platform unless you first make a blog post loudly proclaiming that you're _definitely leaving_ but this guy takes it a few steps further by: - keeping his account active, poised to return immediately (but still, definitely leaving) - maybe posting on Twitter occasionally to point people to ongoing resources (but still, definitely leaving) - highl…
> keeping his account active, poised to return immediately (but still, definitely leaving)
Note that when you delete your account, the handle becomes free to be reused 30 days after, at the risk of someone trying to impersonate him. It's better to leave the account stagnant or "protected" than delete it in this case, and simply point to his Mastodon account in a tweet, his display name or his bio.
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You're simplifying the opposition to fascism too much. For ex. when Antifa were destroying things in protest to police brutality against people of color. Many thought this was unjustified and wrong. Imagine your people were being killed unfairly; how would you react?. I'm not saying all the destruction is the best way, but they can't just be silent about it right. Ignoring the real cause for a protest is easy when it…
> You're simplifying the opposition to fascism too much.
In much the same way that they simplify their opposition into a strawman. But you're not denying the violence and destruction.
> For ex. when Antifa were destroying things in protest to police brutality against people of color.
What did perceived injustices have to do with an anti-fascist group? I don't see how they have justified their involvement.
> Many thought this was unjustified and wrong.
It was. They were destroying the livelihoods of people in their local areas that had nothing to do with their current situation. If you want to believe the idea of racial based inherited guilt, it was the black people who captured and enslaved their own people and sold them to foreigners.
> Imagine your people were being killed unfairly; how would you react?
People get killed unfairly all of the time, my people included. There is only so much I can carry.
> I'm not saying all the destruction is the best way, but they can't just be silent about it right.
I don't at all expect silence. A peaceful protest would have been a good start. For example, 100k black people demanding to be heard at the capitol would have been a hell of a statement. Policing accountability would have been a great demand - how could anybody possibly disagree.
Instead we got destruction and violence, a few people kneeled who had nothing to do with slavery and the BLM organisation ran off with the money after successfully helping themselves.
> Ignoring the real cause for a protest is easy when it doesn't affect you.
It's unclear to me what the real reason for the protest was. That might be because there wasn't a single reason, and not all the reasons were good reasons.
In any case, my position doesn't change. The belief is still that some ideology is supreme, therefore violence is justified, is exactly how the thing they are opposed to is born.
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#118I've also moved from Twitter to Mastodon, for the same reasons, and have a similar experience - the raw follower count is still a fraction as before, but a lot of interesting people I want to connect with are already there. And the feeling is... very different. There was lots about Twitter that subtly enraged me, like pop-sci Covid takes showing up in my algorithmic feed after I had extremely carefully curated my fol…
The issue I have with mastodon is that it seems to cater to tech people, but there is an entire outside world.
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#119Nice. I've always been a firm believer that you haven't _really_ left a platform unless you first make a blog post loudly proclaiming that you're _definitely leaving_ but this guy takes it a few steps further by: - keeping his account active, poised to return immediately (but still, definitely leaving) - maybe posting on Twitter occasionally to point people to ongoing resources (but still, definitely leaving) - highl…
> Nice. I've always been a firm believer that you haven't _really_ left a platform unless you first make a blog post loudly proclaiming that you're _definitely leaving_ but this guy takes it a few steps further by: "This guy" is Tim Bray, who quit as a VP of AWS over its treatment of employees: * https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/tim-bray-quit-amazon-web-se... * https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/04/29/Leavi…
> He has principles and he's willing to put himself out there for them.
He thinks that Twitter is despicable but will still continue to use it to promote his blog. That's not having principles and sticking to them. That's selling out for cheap, and coming up with a lame justification for it.
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#120I've also moved from Twitter to Mastodon, for the same reasons, and have a similar experience - the raw follower count is still a fraction as before, but a lot of interesting people I want to connect with are already there. And the feeling is... very different. There was lots about Twitter that subtly enraged me, like pop-sci Covid takes showing up in my algorithmic feed after I had extremely carefully curated my fol…
The issue I have with mastodon is that it seems to cater to tech people, but there is an entire outside world. https://mxb.dev/blog/the-indieweb-for-everyone/
So this is anecdote and not data, but I'm interacting a lot more with Quakers on Mastodon than I did on Twitter.
Honestly, I don't think services need to be dumbed down so much, people can figure it out. And having a little friction might be a good thing, unless the goal is just to rack up engagement numbers as high as they can be optimized - and arguably that incentive is one of the things that was really wrong with Twitter.