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@fabio@manganiello.social @greenWhale@dice.camp @aral@mastodon.ar.al @eatyourglory@mastodon.uno “ then the best way is to have Mark let them take a walk outside of the fence he's built - and that's exactly what's happening now.”

Citation needed, badly. And in the meantime, you expose tons of people to immediate danger (LibsofTikTok, etc). Plus, you can literally go on those platforms and talk about the fediverse… wait, you can’t! Because they seem to be actively suppressing those conversations. Anyone on threads will see federated content through threads: through the slats in the fence, except they won’t even see the fence. They won’t see me at my tiny server; they’ll just see a random post I made.

Go prove some of these wild ass conjectures before you willingly throw minorities under the bus without a plan. You want people off corporate social media? Make a plan that’s better than theirs. Or a plan, at all. Yeah, some people might jump to new servers… but what’s much more likely is that Meta will utilise its new position in harmful ways. See: literally everything Meta has ever done

@eatyourglory@mastodon.uno @aral@mastodon.ar.al @fabio@manganiello.social @greenWhale@dice.camp could be I misread or read something inaccurate, then. But even in that case, great: best way to get people off corporate social media is by going there and doing it, not by giving the corporation power here.

@eatyourglory@mastodon.uno @aral@mastodon.ar.al @fabio@manganiello.social @greenWhale@dice.camp I don’t know anything about flipboard, so that’s certainly a different conversation in one sense. But in another, the existing pro-capital/corporate legal environment in many regions of the world means any company deserves scrutiny (particularly of their funding source).

@fabio@manganiello.social @aral@mastodon.ar.al @eatyourglory@mastodon.uno @greenWhale@dice.camp actually, do you know what? You are a fucking asshole. You deserve to be told that, because valuing “growth” and “discoverability” makes you a fucking asshole. You say it’s not your responsibility to protect vulnerable people? You’re arguing it’s wrong to do so, you fascist piece of shit. The kind of internet you want, one where minorities are unsafe because you value convenience and growth, is a horrible thing.

You would literally not even be here were it not for vulnerable people. Fuck you, fuck your dipshit privileged mindset. I hope a pigeon shits in your mouth this weekend, you ignorant tech bro piece of fucking garbage. You block ME, idiot; I’m not the one out here saying YOUR life is acceptable collateral damage, WHICH IS WHAT YOU ARE ARGUING FOR. God. You really dove to a new low for this one, you arrogant jar of fermented piss.

Go take your “everything exists for me” mindset and jam it up your own ass.

@fabio@manganiello.social @aral@mastodon.ar.al @eatyourglory@mastodon.uno @greenWhale@dice.camp you are not a friend to minorities; you are carrying water for white supremacy and capitalism and spilling it all over the rest of us.

Enjoy the taste of pigeon shit.

@fabio@manganiello.social @aral@mastodon.ar.al @eatyourglory@mastodon.uno @greenWhale@dice.camp and if you find me cursing at you more “disrespectful” than telling minorities their safety is worth less than your ability to avoid inconvenience… I mean, I’d say that’s an opportune time to reflect, but you lack that capacity.

@SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe @fabio@manganiello.social @greenWhale@dice.camp @aral@mastodon.ar.al @eatyourglory@mastodon.uno a regular Martin Luther King, Jr over here 😂

@aral@mastodon.ar.al @fabio@manganiello.social @eatyourglory@mastodon.uno so because Zuckerberg isn’t enough of a pathetic, desperate, insecure narcissist like Musk but instead a quiet sociopathic piece of shit, he gets to spread unfettered hate? lmao

@fabio@manganiello.social @aral@mastodon.ar.al @eatyourglory@mastodon.uno I don’t think viewing this as “a chance to make the fediverse more mainstream” is correct. This is the fediverse equivalent of the infamous casting couch: bluntly, we’re going to get fucked and get nothing out of it. Meta has enough lawyers, engineers, compute power and paid product managers to make sure he gets way more out of this than anyone else will. He doesn’t enter into arrangements this like unless he gets more out of it than he puts in. If the “plan” on the fedi end is 1. Federate, 2. ????, 3. Social media freedom, then there’s no way in hell the fediverse is going to end up the winner here.

@x4nw@cathode.church @stylus@octodon.social @nkizz@tacobelllabs.net frustratingly enough, they ALSO seem to keep basically pushing it further away from debian towards being their own little closed source thing (see: the relentless push for snaps)

@aral@mastodon.ar.al sounds like you edit your Wikipedia page about your daring tales of derring-do on the high seas.

@SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe @blogdiva@mastodon.social this is a total tangent, so forgive me, but I’ve been thinking the last few days about how alternate belief systems that spring up in opposition (at least in part) to Christianity (specifically some Satanist sects, but 100% the atheist bros too) inevitably keep all the patriarchy garbage. Like, what? Why would I trade one male figurehead for another? What are you… why do you think that’s a compelling offer?? Especially the Satanist ones, given how if you read nothing but Puritan fanfiction you’d think everything outside of Christianity was a matriarchy and…

anyway, sorry. Just like… I’m so… I shouldn’t say surprised. Just disappointed. “We’re not like those Christians!”
“In that you reject patriarchal norms and roles, right” nervous Padme meme

@jonny@neuromatch.social “it’s fine for me to do this if you live in my building. I can use your data”

oh, okay. whew. was worried for a minute there

@whitequark@mastodon.social it’s just taming some electrons, Catherine, how hard could it be

@siege@octodon.social @maddiefuzz@hackers.town finally, the Jesus reboot we’ve been waiting for

Governments are responding to climate change; it's just that they're responding with aggressive military action instead of environmental action.

@yabellini@fosstodon.org I don't know whether it's appropriate to say but I just keep thinking "they killed Aaron Swartz for allegedly trying to give people access to science _they've funded_ and they've given 5 billion to Sam Altman for stealing from everyone"

I'm not surprised but for some reason I just can't stop thinking it. I hate it. I hate it so much. They crushed him even though apparently there was a strong indication that what he was doing wasn't even illegal.

@AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse "deplatforming nazis doesn't work" is such horseshit. Were that true, the corollary would be that Nazis don't need a platform to be successful, which would mean that propaganda doesn't need to be heard to work...

... which is fucking ridiculous, because propaganda is all about repeating a message loudly, repeatedly, and as frequently as possible, and that is ENTIRELY about the degree of reach it has. "Deplatforming fascists doesn't work" citation fucking needed, buddy, and show your work, because you've gotta basically prove that the Nazi state didn't successfully use propaganda to convince the citizenry.

@AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse Also, "defeat them in the marketplace of ideas!" 1. Stop huffing pure capitalist propaganda (which has been very effective on you! Interesting), and 2. The nazis literally won in the "marketplace of ideas", because much like actual marketplaces it's not about the quality of the argument, it's about whatever dumb fuck screams about their shit the loudest.