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 threadCassandrichDec 11, 2022
@shoq Can we please also not idealize a mythical past? This is a fundamentally conservative worldview and there was no time in history when anyone but the privileged enjoyed a mythical golden age. Yes Twitter was wielded to do a lot of bad things but it was also instrumental in speaking truth to power and making it so the privileged couldn't ignore injustices they otherwise would have.
Show threadCassandrichDec 11, 2022
@shoq We should be learning from the good and the bad to create systems that will push us into a better world not trying to go back to an imagined better time.
Show threadFlaming June
@dalias @shoq Yes! There has never been better access to information and this in itself is an absolute good, however messy that gets in practice. It would be tidier if only the powerful or accredited could listen or speak, of course The powers that be would love it.
Dec 11, 2022 at 4:12pmWeb