When this is over, we're going to owe Musk a debt of gratitude for demonstrating not just the folly of relying on sociopath billionaires to give us places to speak and collaborate.
He's demonstrated the danger inherent in all centralized services where one person or company can control what we say and do.
@alcinoe I gave away my age, didn't I. That's not even a question LOL
All Musk needs is a silky polyester shirt unbuttoned to his navel worn with polyester pants and he's Mr. 1977. Yeesh, the reek.
@roannaflowers @alcinoe Oh ye gods and goddesses, yes, Musk is definitely all that and a bag of chips.
Though Tarlek didn't need hair plugs to cover his big, bloated ego.
It's so funny to see you guys considering your system a democracy.
Garymandering, political parties doing everything to prevent people form voting (since ever) and the list goes on and on.
Even when you talk about tw, have a look at this thread, you only see the US from the US. This is the intenet and the whole world is on tw.
Backdoors?
Well if "we" aren't affected ..
People that live in democracies look at your conversations and it's like ..
@dangillmor he's done a lot for open source software, specifically mastodon.
We should give him some sort of award.
It doesn't even matter if it's "right-wing" or what ever. Monopolies always are about power. And power always empowers power and is ultimately accessed by those who crave for power. That's why "we" invented democracies and federation. And that's why "they" always come to undermine it cause of their desire for power.
"It's the setup, stupid!"
(no not you hanscees)
> He's demonstrated the danger inherent
Actually he only demonstrated it in excess. We have witnessed this over years and nobody cared personally enough by leaving.
fb responsible for genocide?
Who cares ..
Algorithms pinpointing people against each other?
Who cares ..
Goggles first page hit's creating centralization of knowledge and meaning.
Who cares ..
Yes, the twitter debacle is a stroke of luck. And actually only because it's stock value numbers didn't add up.
A great anti-rolemodel indeed… like Trump and Putin too…
I am only gonna say "thank you" to that guy after he's been launched into the Sun.
I am thinking that, you know, maybe billionaires just should not exist.
I feel a bit Piketty about it.
Probably we need a progressive global tax on wealth. Strip away their inordinate power.
De-oligarch-ification!
@pino @dangillmor @Bam I would place the blame a little on everyone..
Of course, the process of what ”racing to the bottom of the brainstem” does with social media has been new, and hard to see.
And the well-meaning starts of these companies did a good job of obscuring what happens when they turned their engagement maximisation -boosting algorithms to the max.
But the fact that we played along and took their game as a given, adapted to it even, that’s on us.
@gimulnautti
Well, I'm not smart, but I said to everybody that it is dangerous to centralize all global communication in the hand of a few silicon valley shops. At day 1. I never used that crap. Not FB, Twitter, Insta, WA, ... Was it just a lucky coincidence with my stupidity? I still cannot understand why virtually nobody else around me wanted to get it, ~15y ago. They actually kind of understood partially, deep inside, but they all managed to find excuses and trivialized it.
@dangillmor As everyone here has already pointed out, yes, the _public_ square must be _public_. Nothing else will work long term. Twitter didn't even last one generation.
Some of us have been jumping up and down and pointing at this since the 1990s, when the government-funded internet was handed over wholesale to profit-seekers.
People everywhere still struggle to create wonder and fun in the ever-fewer loopholes left by those who try to turn everything into money.
@dangillmor But like our wider media crisis, we're not going to fix it because too few of us keep talking about these things. How do we make everyone else realize just how dangerous this situation is? What does it take? How do we make the point, and where do we make it so anyone sees it? I rarely say this, but I'm running out of ideas.
@shoq @dangillmor I think this is part of a larger trend that has slowly ruined a lot of things. Profit over people. This has affected:
- wildlife
- native people
- land use / abuse
- city / road design
- food safety
- medical safety / cost
- and now journalism
The continued impunity of Facebook is a good example of how money can suppress any backlash over obviously dangerous/toxic propaganda.
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