Notices by william.maggos (wjmaggos@liberal.city)

@mastodonmigration @quillmatiq

they are more decentralizable and decentralized than I thought they'd be by now, but less decentralized than they seemed to promise. we also have a problem with mastodon dot social on this front, but much less so.

this argument gets a little silly unless we're also thinking about why we care about decentralization. if it's possible ownership change and degradation, maybe only decentralizable matters. if it's avoiding censorship, being decentralized matters. etc.

@jedimb @jonchevreau.bsky.social

you have to let media outlets say what they want, but what we can change is the media structure that defaults to giving them so much attention and money. broadcast and cable TV replaced with #owncast and #peertube.

@WarnerCrocker

they never had this afaik. they'd instead tell you what to read. algo shit, not reading my social graph.

@WarnerCrocker

there are lots of alternatives. I wish they'd incorporate the fedi. show me a tab with the articles most popular with the people I follow.

If we want to kill #xitter, the message can't be "no conservatives". It has to be "no pushing any ideas down your throat". That means no ads, no algos, no bots and no HOA. #SocialWeb

@jeffowski

I can't agree unless they are harassing people. we should federate with any server with people with any opinions unless they have users that tag others when they don't want to be tagged or pollute hashtags (or do illegal shit). that's the fedi magic. like the web with horrible websites, everybody can freely browse/communicate etc and we never need to see what we don't want to. except when people get tagged, and we should treat that like spam. block some servers etc. #fediblockmeta

We need to make the case to #EzraKlein about why the fedi can be a better version of what twitter was. who can do that?

#SocialWeb #xitter #bluesky #threads

https://pca.st/4lsscmbd

Exits are not enough. We must push for at least as many social media servers as we have web/email servers today. If you put out content or have a public presence, you should want it to be social to ensure that no person, corporation or govt can limit your reach. That everyone who will be interacting with your work is also similarly free to share it, w/o competing with ads/algos. That's the promise of #ActivityPub and where the #ATproto model falls short.

#SocialWeb #bluesky #AttentionDemocracy

@evan

I will listen and I will try to find another episode I heard talking about reform. but would the US rather nuke somebody than let the UN put in a peacekeeping force to create more of a true democracy in Palestine? I doubt it. but Israel has nukes now even though they won't admit it and might. IDK

@evan

we need to restructure the UN. the will of the international community should not be able to be stymied by the permanent members of the UNSC.

@BowsacNoodle @Witch_Hunter_Siegfried @justinerickson @NoBeret @EvilSandmich @reallyangry

empathy is about trying to truly understand where somebody else is coming from, but not losing yourself. and not just them, but trying to consider everyone.

I think that leads to not giving a kid a snack cause you're thinking bigger. and it leads to immigration policies that don't produce a native backlash, but also other policies that consider why they are coming. if other actions can also be taken.

@justinerickson @BowsacNoodle @NoBeret @EvilSandmich

you have me confused with some other guy.

@justinerickson @BowsacNoodle @NoBeret @EvilSandmich

I think I said some reasonable stuff last night, had a decent discussion with this guy, and you jump in defining and tearing down "the left".

please learn how to be decent to people you don't agree with.

@BowsacNoodle @justinerickson @NoBeret @EvilSandmich

I bring up the interconnectedness and reasonableness because what stops most of us from "doing more" to get what we want is empathy for others less like us. I hope you have and retain that.

@BowsacNoodle @justinerickson @NoBeret @EvilSandmich

concerns about borders are not inherently racist. I hate that some of my fellow lefties default to that.

but wanting more immigration is also not a plot.

it's hard to balance all this stuff out when the world is now so interconnected and it's easier to travel. like I say to libertarians, I don't think it's crazy to want what you want but it's currently unreasonable. I wish you could have your own planet.

@BowsacNoodle @justinerickson @NoBeret @EvilSandmich

I share your concern about labor supply.

what I said about being willing to move is not intended to discount the pain of moving but to argue that people usually put their economic well-being above staying in homogeneous communities.

some people really like being with people like themselves. Not me. Hence why I like to argue with conservatives I guess. Not sure how many are more like me vs you.

But the rich like us fighting over scraps.

@BowsacNoodle @justinerickson @NoBeret @EvilSandmich

it correlates with economic insecurity. rich people don't feel worse cause they're now having fancy parties with more people of mixed ethnicities. people are happy to move for better jobs. the person of another ethnicity who does something you like is not a problem. it's only when your life sucks that most people freak out about "diversity".

peoples are always mixing. we define groups arbitrarily by drawing borders at certain times.

@justinerickson @EvilSandmich @NoBeret

you're acting like older generations concerned about the degenerating of younger generations. they try shit, sometimes just to freak out people like you. look at the trolling here. same thing. and you think it's a plot instead of just what happens with kids.

that damn rock and roll telling kids about Satan and to kill themselves.

@EvilSandmich @justinerickson @NoBeret

here's where I'd assume somebody with virtue would tell somebody (even someone they agree with on lots of stuff, maybe specifically someone they agree with cause it would be more likely to be listened to) not to bring race into this. but wtf do I know.

@NoBeret @justinerickson @EvilSandmich

being overly selfish is the problem. that can show up in an insatiable need for money or attention. probably other stuff too.

but some selfishness is required. and people tend to think they have the right ideas. so compromise is really hard. that's where the conflict begins.

and I focus on money because in our system, it's what allows the interests of a few who have more money to win out over the interests of the many. till it gets bad enough...