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muesli

No matter which social network you're on, following a diverse group of people helps you taking a peek at the other side of your personal filter bubble.

You don't have to agree with everything and everyone, but please, at least try to listen to people and their opinions.

It will help you appreciate your own life, and may just make you a little wiser.

Jun 13, 2018 at 9:42pmWeb
Show threadmaloki ๐ŸตJun 13, 2018

@fribbledom this is so true!

I've learnt so much since I started diversifying my follows.

Show threadfridaysforfuture, but everydayJul 3, 2018
@maloki
same here!
I'm wondering how to support this by software design.
Since there is the federated timeline, ones stream is just one click away from diversity.
Yet I don't like to use it much in it's *current* design.
What is bothering me, that it's difficult to find, what I'm wanting to listen the most to. And it is, what has a significant importance to the one posting it. I want to listen to their opinion on things that really matters to them...1/
@fribbledom
Show threadfridaysforfuture, but everydayJul 3, 2018

@maloki
...but I don't want to listen to everything. I also obvious can't.
Which in it's current design leads towards listening to those that write 'the most' or being more reboosted, will be the once drawing my attention.

I've shared here some thoughts how this could be changed:
https://hub.libranet.de/channel/paulfree14/?f=&mid=fea3b23700ad736b555a497e44e1bada28b667551a26b2d40c779eb9bf4271b2@hub.libranet.de
(feedback aprichiated)

@fribbledom

curating content to challenge antipatterns effecting comunication and culture within the fediverse

I'm not to shure from which angle I should start reasoning my suggestion. But since it's about improving (that's what I pretend until you proof me wrong) the comunication within the fediverse, I'll just start right there from the antipatern. Some being sensible sensitive in this topic please close...

Show threadDassinger Don DassingerMay 28, 2019
@paulfree14 @maloki @fribbledom Sometimes, perhaps regularly, pick a letter in the alphabet and focus attentively for a time period, even 10 minutes on just reading and perhaps developing empathy from one of the people you follow, or one of the people followed by someone who follows you, or a follower of someone who you follow. Next time pick another letter of the alphabet, another person who has toots and replies that are visible. Sort of daystalking with no malicious intent. @Dassinger Aloha.
Show threadDassinger Don DassingerMay 28, 2019
@paulfree14 @maloki @fribbledom Interesting. I tend to Star and also reshare the better among many comments I view. If many people do this then it forms a meritocracy of peer-elevated postings. True, those with many followers have a far greater likelihood of some of their own posts being more visible, upranked.
Show threadDassinger Don DassingerMay 28, 2019

@paulfree14 @maloki @fribbledom ... in part...
Let's imagine for the moment the timeline as it were a gathering. Since I'm following +700 ppl I imagine it would be a gathering in that size.

And how can suggestions to those answers be implemented within the fediverse?
...share at least those info with a wider audience that has a significant high value/importance/relevance/desire for them to be listened to by others.]..
The purely chronological timeline is doing this to some extend.

Show threadSatoshi S.Jun 14, 2018
@fribbledom I agree.๐Ÿ‘
Show threadnwinJun 15, 2018
@fribbledom
Thanks for the reminder! While being a goal of mine, I absolutely should do that more
Show threadcwcopaJun 17, 2018

@fribbledom

Thanks, but I feel great in my filter bubble ;-)

Show thread ๐šœ๐šŽ๐š•๐šŽ๐šŠ Jun 25, 2018
@fribbledom
Agree to that
Show threadWayvesJun 26, 2018
@fribbledom Exactly
Show threadcelxJul 7, 2018
@fribbledom This is so true!! Itโ€™s so important to learn about other points of view!!
Show threadskrlet13Jul 13, 2018

@fribbledom I'm wary of this kind of posts because sometimes they mean "you should listen to bigoted opinions" (Homophobia, racism, etc...)

But you probably don't mean that.

Show threadmuesliJul 13, 2018

@skrlet13

No, I really don't mean that! Do not follow assholes by any means!

But explore the unknown, get to know people from other regions and of various cultures in the world. Open up and embrace other opinions, life-styles and choices!

Show threadskrlet13Jul 13, 2018
@fribbledom I'm very glad to read that ๐Ÿ˜€ ๐Ÿ‘
Show threadMattiasJul 19, 2018
@fribbledom a great perspective.
Show threadLWFlouisaJul 19, 2018
@fribbledom Hey as long as your not using diverse to mean what third generation SJWs call diverse, then sure diversity all the way.
Show threadPierre ThierryJul 30, 2018
@fribbledom I actually like that Diaspora* gets me in contact with some pretty hardcore right-wingers for this reason.
Show threadInevitableCashewsMay 30, 2019
@kephasp @fribbledom I'd LOVE to be able to have some conversations with such folk. How can I possibly defend my position if I am unwilling to understand the opposing view? Sadly last time I tried that was on Gab. It.. ended poorly.
Show threadPierre ThierryJun 9, 2019

@InevitableCashews @fribbledom

Ho, it ends poorly very often. Worth doing anyway.

Show threadpeter1985Aug 2, 2018
@fribbledom
Welcome
I have democratic ideology flowing in my veins.!!
Show threadvucSep 4, 2018
@fribbledom No word is more appropriate than "TOTALLY!" - My goal is to move away from the useless parade of self-promotional exhibitionism on Instagram, the sharing memes of Facebook, and the... well you get it. Let's get into the further reaches of the galaxy!
Show threadmtoshaughnessySep 7, 2018
@fribbledom When I lecture from time to time at UBC something I like about it is the chance to give a differing perspective to students. Not The True One. Not claiming to be the representative of any specific group. But to provide a concrete example of a distinctly different perspective. Not better or worse. Different.
Because. Unquestioned their perspective is NOT the only one in the world. That lesson seems valuable. To me at least.
Show threadThe Latest and GreatestSep 20, 2018
@fribbledom just be careful you don't fall into the paradox of tolerance
Show threadmasyukunSep 26, 2018

@fribbledom I agree in practice, although here we are getting into the philosophy of what a social network *should be*.

Shouldn't social networks strictly facilitate and reflect real-life social networks and all that that entails? The moment we start nudging people toward being their best selves -- away from tribalism, embrace other cultures -- we are making and enforcing value judgments on a natural system that evolved over millions of years.

And if not, who does the deciding and enforcing?

Show threadJasper ๐Ÿ‰Oct 1, 2018

@masyukun @fribbledom

> The moment we start nudging people toward being their best selves -- away from tribalism, embrace other cultures -- we are making and enforcing value judgments on a natural system that evolved over millions of years.

LMAO kick him

Show threadJasper ๐Ÿ‰Oct 1, 2018

@masyukun i am not serious.

It didn't evolve in millions of years, we've lived with internet for a few decades.

Naturalistic fallacy, obviously. And there are plenty of reasons to disdain tribalism. It allows for dehumanization of others and thus violence.

Also it is simultaniously "nudging" and "enforcing" pick one..

Show threadJasper ๐Ÿ‰Oct 1, 2018

@masyukun @fribbledom hmm do think there is a concern;

Some of the uses i see suggest more intimacy(using the word loosely) and others more a general forum.

In some ways this is all very public and intimacy is very visible.. It's probably okey, if you want something which is really for a tight-ish knit group.

Show threade. jonezOct 3, 2018
@fribbledom I think this is true but the ability to do this depends on the diversity available on the network itself. i'd like to "follow" people who don't use computers at all.
Show threadSayuri Firebrand ๐Ÿ’› โฌœ๏ธ ๐Ÿ’œ ๐Ÿ–คโ€Oct 8, 2018
@fribbledom this sounds neat and all, but not exactly practical when you're trans and/or LGBTQ+ or something that often faces endless harassment in social networks. Even if I find something unique or inspiring, I don't want to have to wade through thousands of opinions about how I don't deserve to exist to get it.
Show threadLeviOct 12, 2018
@fribbledom Amen to that! :)
Show threadbushdoctorzNov 13, 2018
@fribbledom yes i true word
Show threadSiNov 14, 2018
@fribbledom I feel like this is only possible on a site that explicitly removes any participants who are y'know actual fucking Nazis.
Show threadmuesliNov 14, 2018
@imsimong I'm really not suggesting to follow random assholes online. But if you join another social network just to stay in the same circle of friends you already got elsewhere, you're gaining nothing.
Show threadSiNov 14, 2018

@fribbledom I think that's easier with a curated network is all I mean. I'm happy that I can literally pull up any instance and find folks to interact with (like you for example)!!!

This is cool and better that the birdie

Show threadmoved to @multiple_creatures@monsterpit.netNov 14, 2018
@fribbledom @imsimong
social networks don't have to be exclusively a mass communication tool tho

some people just wanna move to a fedi house and invite their friends to chill instead of staying at the twitter highrise with its leaky roofs, lead paint, and exploding septic tank that management refuses to fix
Show threadSiNov 14, 2018

@multiple_creatures @fribbledom

I'm here for that too! Public (ideological and literal) Housing for everybody!

Show thread-iDec 6, 2018

@fribbledom wise sentiments.
do people have the time? or have the time but feel as if not?

..or is it that there's something in the way data operates, the speed, that might induce a feeling of being harried? move on, move on.. and inevitably, listen less?

Show threadreverecheDec 6, 2018
@fribbledom Oh god don't do this "if you are truly open-minded, you will befriend people who want to see you dead/burning in hell" bullshit
Show threadmuesliDec 6, 2018
@revereche I've never said you should go and befriend assholes.
Show threadreverecheDec 7, 2018
@fribbledom Without context, it's really hard to tell what you're getting at with this. I see this wording used to push tolerance for Nazis and violent homophobes a lot.
Show threadhisoka โŒ’ยฐ(แด–โ—กแด–)ยฐโŒ’Dec 17, 2018
@revereche @fribbledom this person is literally just saying to not be in an echochamber and the fact that yalls first reaction is to get defensive is kinda telling
Show threadreverecheDec 20, 2018
@nicholas @fribbledom ...Kinda telling that I'm defensive about being told to tolerate people wanting me to burn in hell. Yes.
Show threadWifi-cableDec 30, 2018
@fribbledom I agree with the sentiment, however chaos social sometimes feels like a comfortable filter bubble too.
Show threadRebellePoeticaJan 4, 2019

@fribbledom I agree, this is the best strategy for developing a healthy, broad perspective: source a wealth of competing opinions.

This works, however, only when the will for civil debate is mutual. It's a symbiotic process.

I have tried no end to reason with people on twitter, FB.

I think the way a social network is modulated deeply affects discourse on it.

Twitter is marginally better than FB, allowing a civil society to exist. But many abuse it to reinforce their ego, and hurl insults. ๐Ÿค”

Show thread๐ŸŒŠ Matteo De MicheliJan 29, 2019
@fribbledom at least when you have tried to fully understand someone elses viewpoint you can say no or yes more clearly
Show threadAliceFeb 10, 2019
@fribbledom In the same vein: If someone with different views to you follows you, try not to knee-jerk block them if you can. Some may be employing the above and want to learn, grow, empathize, and understand.
Show threadKate (i โค blahaj) Feb 11, 2019
@fribbledom is reddit a social network
Show threadppnlyfcsnrmlzedvlnceMar 4, 2019
@fribbledom @m_r1k wonderful words ๐ŸŒผ๐Ÿ’ฎ๐ŸŒป
Show threadJo ๐ŸŒธMar 4, 2019
@fribbledom exactly! some ppl just donโ€™t want a variety of different opinions on their timeline.
Show threadFluffbun OlivarMar 8, 2019
@fribbledom even if they're flat earth theorists..? >_<
Show threadevaMar 12, 2019
@fribbledom hi! and yess ๐Ÿ™
Show threadThe Crystal GardenMay 7, 2019
@fribbledom This is a great stance to take. Identity politics and safe bubbles help noone in the long run. I also am starting to come around to the idea of smaller communities, which is why mastodon is so cool - you can enjoy the benefits of a fragmented shard, or join the rest of the universe.
Show threadChrisnaMay 18, 2019
@fribbledom I guess I am a maker too, kind of. I like radio stuff and electronics, SDR, dabbling in timenuttery, I suppose. Have a big stack of unfinished projects.
Show threadG M Fahim MugdhoMay 23, 2019
@fribbledom Bad ideas can only be eliminated by humble extensive discussion; NOT by force or insults. We often forget that.
Show threadSandro Jun 2, 2019
@fribbledom
Really hard when you are in filter bubble.
Show threadanatectJun 7, 2019
@fribbledom well said!
Show thread๐”ธ๐•๐•–๐•ฉJun 18, 2019
@fribbledom What helped me was subscribing to a quality newspaper and reading the "opinions" section. Often times I start reading and get upset because it conflicts with my previous opinion. But more often than not, I realize that the first opinion was actually wrong/biased. It definitely helps to force yourself to read more than just one source.