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   Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 11:47:21 JST Alexandre Oliva

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   • Christoph Mergerson
   being addicted to something made with the purpose of being addictive is not a character defect, it's not a flaw, it's being human with all the vulnerabilities that this implies, and it's being a victim.
   IMHO whatever great features this (or any other) community built on twitter would be even greater and shinier on platforms that weren't made to exploit their attention as products, and to extract value from them.
   when prey ally with their predators, it doesn't usually end well for the prey.
   I know stockholm's syndrome has been discredited, but when it comes to addictive products and services, especially tech-induced addictions, it appears to be very real.
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     Christoph Mergerson (mergerson@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 11:47:42 JST Christoph Mergerson

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     Twitter, for many people, is not an addiction per se, any more than your desire to wake up, go out into your community, and see friendly faces who support you in a difficult world is an addiction. I understand why some people stay, move slowly, or keep a presence in both worlds. It’s not a character defect. 2/2

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     Christoph Mergerson (mergerson@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 11:47:51 JST Christoph Mergerson

     Black people have built communities on Twitter that are unlike any other in the technological world. Those communities are not easily replicated elsewhere. An analogy is when people criticized New Orleanians who rebuilt in the city after the devastation of Katrina, even though it was palpably risky to do so. But none of the critics sufficiently explained how those people should transfer their social capital and communities to unfamiliar places that may not even want them. 1/2

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