Bashing vs. Building
I have been on Medium since 2019. Medium is, more or less, a left-wing echo chamber.
I have written about 700 articles for Medium. Most are about building a new democracy. But occasionally, I get into articles bashing the current system and its actors.
My bashing articles do much better than my building articles. Why is that?
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=23&id=409
A wonderful text by @onepict
"#AI" #EchoChamber #GreekMythology
»We will not help you steal others work, or enable genocides by using the companies that provide the infrastructure for governments to do harms to their peoples. We won't be polite to the people that allow the sloppy auto correct to cause extra work in an already overloaded technical community.
We will judge you. Which is what you fear really. Being an outcast and not being welcome in our spaces. The spaces we had to build for our safety.
You're not welcome here. You have plenty of other spaces online to peddle this. Leave our spaces alone.«
I don't think folks consider freedom of association enough when we look at why defederation and moderation is such an important part of the #fediverse
It's not just free speech. We have the right to assemble and to refuse to be welcoming in our spaces.
So no, we aren't welcoming to #LLM tech bro's on here.
"We're the echo that's left and we don't want to reflect your narcissism."
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RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116375194345663426
Hey #EchoChamber, they need to hear from you.
RE: https://dice.camp/@artemis/116358342154325909
@artemis "[...] if you don't like it when people are picky about who they associate with & how [...]"
This is 100% on the money for me.
I feel like some of the vocal folks about #echochamber miss the fact that not everybody might like their social network as a mall of some loud prophets, but rather as bazaars or pubs - fine community garnerings come in many forms, after all.
There is no "Mastodon", only a loose network of federating servers. So "Mastodon" cannot "bring in" more of this, that, or the other. Nor can "Mastodon" prevent people spinning up their own servers and trying to federate with others.
And lastly, "Mastodon" cannot make individual users look at anything they don't want to look at – there are no pushy algorithms here.
Seems to me that some people who ought to know this need instructing.
It seems that echo chamber is the key phrase of the day. Here's my take
Personally, I left Twitter because it was full of bullying and celebrity/influencer worship. I didn't fit in, and felt very uncomfortable.
I left Facebook when my friends and families posts started disappearing and an algorithm started feeding me things I should have interest in.
I haven't used any other social media, except the Fediverse where I have been accepted and feel comfortable, even though my introverted nature sometimes tells me to stop interacting and go back to lurking like on Twitter.
As social media goes, I have found a happy place. I follow what I want, block what I don't, and am really happy with the moderation of aus.social admins. Is it an echo chamber? To be honest, I don't care. I'm not going to the pub with a bunch of people I don't like the opinion of, and that's how I think of the Fediverse, a social environment, rather than a soapbox.
Anyway, I'll go back to talking about chess, and posting photos of Tasmania and cats. And thanks to all of you who happily tolerate me 🙂
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