FaraiweIf there is a table with ten people, and a nazi sits down, starts spouting nazi shit, and nobody says or does anything about it, you now have a table with eleven nazis.
Don't condone the nazi bars.
#techbros are evil because they pervert the purpose of technology, to harness its capabilities to enslave people, so they can suck resources from them, like dystopian parasites or vampires.
That is despicable.
#DTBOs are despicable. Any and everything owned by douchebag techbro billionaires is an evil.
@AlisonCreekside Then hurt tRumpo where it hurts the most: his self image. Keep a steady media presence of reporting on topics that hurt tRumpo; a mandatory update on Epstein stuff, a mocking daily report of his doddering dementia decline, in best Mr Bean style.
@AlisonCreekside This is first level of correct response.
The MOST idealest level would be to fire back, hurting where the funders of tRumpo's shittiness have their innermost anchors: their revenue.
Declare end to protection of US IP from large corporations of the douchebag techbro billionaires funding him. SANCTION THE EVER LOVING SHIT OUT OF RUSSIA.
If you are giving money to #DTBOs such as #bluesky, #xitter, #substack, #threads, #linkedin , etc, please, spare us your manufactured outrage about the #TurdReich / #musk clusterfuck, since you are part of their financial resources.
Every time you open a DTBO socmedia client, or hit their website, you are generating clicks, which fuel ad reports, which translates as cents to the pockets of the billionaires using that money to kill democracy.
faraiwe@mark @wdjorth and as with every CHOICE, the RESPONSIBILITY is attached to it.
You are responsible for the consequences of your online presence to other people's lives.
Their choice of giving custom (thus $) to #DTBOs carries the weight of the consequences of what those entities DO to other people. It's akin to arming someone, knowing they will cause to others.
@FrozenPeach it's ok, you don't need to find the account ::Jedi hand wave::
Eventually, all the slop-churning "ai" ( #LLM shit) will cease to be relevant, and will be left to talk *at* each other, slinging its endless, meaningless drivel of slop, polluting and clogging bandwidth at corporate socmedia and walled-garden internet.
Humans can let cretins fighting for brief glimpses of connection to non-bots, through the gunk of LLMs, over at #DTBOs. Meanwhile, we stay in touch with each other, real minds, over at small, de-centralized, federated, By-People-For-People Web1.0+ internet.
@mastodonmigration how about we do not.
These lists remove consent from those listed, for one. They also focus people onto only the accounts listed. At one point or another, they WILL become a tool that does not give users power, whether people mean well or not by putting them up.
These lists are a feature of #DTBOs such as #threads and #bluesky. We want nothing like those, here.
The #fediverse is not about any form of algorithms, even if they are merely a shortcut (that does the things listed above). People want to find and follow People (or funny bots) organically. As results show.
Mind you, even the totally scientifically "poll" had NO SIMPLE "No" OPTION, the only "No" option implies people don't KNOW what lists are, but might want it. Most don't seem to want it.
IMO, IME, FWIW, YMMV, NGGYUNGLYD, AYBABTU
@dansup All tgat is nice, but the overall governance is headed the same way.
Suppression of any opinion dissenting from the PERSONAL VIEWS of moderators is rampant, and nothing points to that changing, whatsoever.
They want o be the #fediverse, the DIFFERENCE, but they behave the same as the #DTBOs
They have NOT handed power to anyone other than the people in mod positions.
We can tap dance in semantics, but this is factual, and clearly observable.
I am not criticizing the #mastodon project. I am saying the mastodon.social instance is a blight upon the very goals and ideals of it. Very different. VERY.