Shoq 🌿Dec 11, 2022

What drove the internet in the 90s and 00s was that it was so cool to be doing good shit with it. Social media was like a giant manure dump all over that culture. We've never recovered.

The Fediverse and the death of Twitter promise a rebirth of that culture, if we don't let the cool kids and a lazy press bury the public in vapid bullshit again.

We wasted 16 goddamn years enduring Facebook and Twitter. In the end, they were both toxic and regressive. Can we please not go back there? Please?

Show threadEd DesautelsDec 11, 2022
@shoq In the 70s, you needed a license to operate a CB radio and your license culled be revoked for abusing the privilege. The Internet arrives and anyone with access to a “device” can spew whatever they want with zero accountability.
Show threadChloePolitiCat
@EdwardDesautels @shoq Excellent point
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