Notices by trisweb (trisweb@m.trisweb.com)

@thomasfuchs I was having this conversation with my dad the other day.

We determined that the Internet as a whole basically reached diminishing returns around 1998.

We could do everything we do now, with the same basic result, but without the ads, dark patterns, and societal degradation.

@skinnylatte this is amazing green tea, yep. So much depth and flavor. I’m so glad I got a quarter kilo. Thank you!!

A #team anti-pattern that I frequently observe and always try to root out whenever possible: treating trust as a wall rather than a bridge; an individual expectation rather than a relationship.

“You should trust me; I shouldn’t have to communicate.”

“I thought you trusted my expertise.”

“We all trust each other to do our jobs.”

There’s a truth to it, because yes, of course we need autonomy and focus to do our jobs.

But the place this type of thinking leads is not a cohesive team that genuinely trusts each other in a relational way. It leads the opposite direction toward individuality and isolation and prevents team cohesion.

Endemic to very senior teams especially; it’s one of the reasons I love working with less experienced folks, the expectation is much less individual and they know they need each other to succeed.

Tough one.

@skinnylatte amazing. Both look great. I’m on a green tea kick so perfect timing, and I guess I might as well try your all time favorite tea, lol.

@skinnylatte and thank you! Ordered those plus a handful of others from Wuyi origin, looks like the cloud mist is fresh so got a bunch 😁

@skinnylatte oh well now I have to ask — any favorite really good teas to share?

@cratermoon @scottjenson @Gargron This is a very rich ethics question hidden in a specific example.

Would you permit or allow any community with which you disagree to participate on a platform, even if you’re not forced to participate?

A shortlist of thought experiments, to broaden the perspective, some of which are already here, some not…
- The oil & gas community
- Forestry workers (logging)
- The cryptocurrency community
- Workers at a chick rendering plant
- The finance industry
- Adult content creators
- Religious communities

Is there a litmus test for topics that you can or can’t discuss on the fediverse? Specific servers sure, but the whole fediverse?

Does that align with the values put forth by mastodon or the fediverse in general?

I don’t have the answers.

@evan it 1000% already is running this software and has been for a long time.

@thomasfuchs omg must have

And right on time for the holidays…

*edit: $400!!! Whew. 😅

@skinnylatte I’d be down…

@carnage4life “don’t get into anything at all” —> ok so socialist Star Trek economy with no money and no requirement to work when?

@pixplz @dalias depends on the teacher.

The regime has already done so much illegal and unconstitutional crap that their only option is total power, otherwise they all are in deep shit. I think they know it and are incredibly afraid, driving many of their behaviors.

All members of the military: remember your oath.

#SilentSunday

There needs to be big signs in front of every Republican senator and congressperson’s house that just say:

How much longer?

They know. We need them to not be able to ignore their own cowardice.

@SuperDicq @collectifission if they believe in AI so much, it should have no problem doing the job of CEO.

We (or really, I, personally, but I think you also) should think of #SocialMedia primarily as a brain-rotting time suck that genuinely significantly ruins our lives, rather than a small inconvenience or leisure activity.

Corporate social media saps us of our time, attention, focus, sense of reality, self-confidence, and self-determination. It is a net negative for almost every single person I’ve talked to about it. It steals our life from us.

I know when I’m older, I will not care about how much Reddit karma I have, or how many upvotes I got on witty comments. I won’t care how much time I spent endlessly watching video loops, or what influencers I saw. It’s all meaningless time theft.

Treat it more like a hard drug in your mind, not a harmless little thing. Act and decide accordingly.

Elephant in the room: #Mastodon and the #Fediverse are certainly less addictive, less time sucking, less attention seeking, and more wholesome and social than corporate socials.

But they are not perfect. The drug is still the same, and we should be very careful to not just replace one form of time suck with another.

Especially as we design open social experiences, this should be a paramount consideration and a design goal. Non-addictive and life-affirming social media should be a design goal for the Fediverse and the future of social media in general.

They really don’t get it. They think the mass fear and worry is some kind of conspiracy operation.

They don’t understand that people genuinely dislike what’s happening on a mass scale.

Scary.