@glyph this is maybe orthogonal to your thread but a bit of a rhetorical puzzle I've been chewing on lately is how to concisely and memorably communicate "stress is literally physically painfully destroying my body, please, I'm begging you, stop posting misleading Headlines and panic speculation if you're going to talk about current events don't crowd source debunking misinformation please just put in the 30 minutes of rigor yourself" without it reading or reducing to "duh hur im apolitical"

@aeva @glyph maybe there's an in between ui/ux option where we don't algorithmically decide what to show, but we do group and label content topics? Kinda how mastodon currently has the jagged separation stubs at the end of sections of content that I think is organized by time posted / posts you missed

@ant @glyph I've got a private discord for a specific group of local friends and we've got basically two rules the first being "do not make me add rules" and the second being "do not post the news" and this has worked great for years. Our "MAU" is awesome. What's really surprised me is that people who have moved away have become more active.

@aeva @glyph that's neat, I am the two buttons sweating guy meme thinking about the need to spread news to inform versus just amplifying the panic. It entirely depends on the receiving user's ever changing state of mind, so it seems like a technical piece missing is first-class/mandatory preference setting which is a pretty high barrier to entry and won't beat out plug-and-play options. "Don't post the news" unfortunately can't work for a massive federated network

@ant @glyph if it helps, think of relying on random news articles you see on social media to stay informed as replacing your education with advertisement for mcdonalds commercials

@aeva @glyph totally lol but education and information are very different concerns, I agree that we have generally far too much information to keep pace with the slower task of education. We need a better bouncer to pace our intake, until then we are bottlenecked and can barely think critically about anything.

@aeva @glyph if my peers who are more brutalized than me can't take another single hit, but I can, I might be able to stop them from sinking into right wing propaganda because I've built a collage of pain and can easily draw on it to point out that no, it isn't "too much generosity" or "too much tolerance" causing you pain, it's a handful of very powerful people with attitudes that cascade symbiotically with those of gradations of similarly minded cretins' hell-bent on slavery