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   Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 06:54:30 JST Glyph

   Every time I see some public figure complaining on their YouTube channel, or their blog, or god forbid on twitter itself, about the nightmare of algorithmic social media, how twitter is bad, how instagram is bad or whatever it feels like an Eric Andre skit

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     Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 06:54:29 JST Glyph

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     Standing outside the fence of the Fediverse next to an open gate screaming “LET ME IN, LET ME IN” and then a dozen people in the comments are like “uh, sure, come on in” and then they’re like “no thanks I am good”

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     Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 06:54:29 JST Glyph

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     I do want to be clear that what I am saying is not “the fediverse is uniformly better than corporate social media in every possible way”. Mastodon has interesting problems, some of which are quite bad! What I am frustrated about is that the mainstream progressive discourse about social media is frozen in this inaccurate static framing of all “tech” as right-wing because left-leaning pundits are mostly ignoring what left-leaning technologists are doing. I don’t know how to bridge that gap.

     Rocketman repeated this.
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     Terence Eden (edent@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 06:54:29 JST Terence Eden

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     @glyph you pay money.

     It really is that simple. The tech you hear about (mostly) buys positive press by using professional PR teams. They put out press releases, they invite journalists to launches, they put people forward for interviews.

     We on the left seem to expect this to happen naturally. It doesn't.