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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦17h ago

RE: https://social.coop/@scottjenson/116352522288234148

Oh. so this is the thread people have been talking about.

jfc.

look, i only know of Dare from Twitter & the tech scene. so that’s almost 20 years now (i joined there in 2007). Dare is like the Black unicorn of techbrolandia. he was never the guy to bring visibility to what’s newsworthy. he’s always been around to amplify techbros.

you know who was followed for what was newsworthy?

ME.

i was in the top 5 of most influential accounts during the #ArabSpring & #OccupyWallStreet

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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦17h ago

look, i used Twitter as a news platform way before most people even imagined it could be used as such.

i was reporting on-the-ground, posting pics & videos with my Blackberry by 2008. i created a lot of what's now considered conventional reporting.

that’s why thousands of reporters and news orgs followed me. i was the journalists’ journalist.

and it’s why i later found out, thanks to Edward Snowden, i had been targeted by techbros. because am a nobody (to them) that people trust.

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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦17h ago

there’s a lot of bullshit with the “but where are the Black people”.
https://social.coop/@scottjenson/116352800579635299

if the #fediverse isn’t like corporate “social media” built for surveillance; then stop trying to use Mastodon to stalk people.

BIPOC come to the fediverse to not be the target of the WHITE GAZE. they come to the fediverse to be whatever the fuck they want to be.

BIPOC are here, using their personas of choice, cuz they’re NOT here for you to stalk them.

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Scott Jenson (@[email protected])

As this conversation is spiraling a bit I want to make a few things clear: 1. I'd like Mastodon to be MORE inclusive and bring in more voices 2. Some people don't seem to want that 3. This is core problem to solve: How do we let more in, but not "pollute" your feed? 4. The solution is NOT "gatekeeping", revelling in the fact that AI journalists aren't welcome 5. This is the same reason we lost "Black Twitter" when it came over in 2022 Yes, a lot of you don't want AI posts in your feed (or pick any other topic) but the solution isn't to keep "AI People" from joining Mastodon, any more than it is keeping marginalized communities off of Mastodon.

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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦17h ago

this post though… OMG… don't even know how to begin with this:
https://social.coop/@scottjenson/116358195717244835

the tell is in his use of “AI JOURNALISM”. that’s just the cherry on top of the shit sundae Jenson is tryna sell as “the echo chamber”.

in Scott Jenson’s world, people who reject #AIslop are also racists who won’t boost his one Black, “AIfluencer” friend Dare.

nobody is buying Dare’s efforts to sell #AIslop as inevitable because there is nothing to buy.

IT’S ALL HYPE & PROPAGANDA

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Scott Jenson (@[email protected])

OK, this is going even MORE sideways so I need to make a few things clear: 1. I took a complex point and made it poorly 2. My goal was to ask for more inclusiveness 3. I am sickened by what happend to BlackTwitter and I don't want it recur 4. But I can't speak for BlackTwitter nor should I 5. I apologize to black mastodon users for making such a poor comparison 6. I'm not endorsing "AI Slop" they were a foil to make my point 7. I'm certainly NOT trying to compare AI bros to Black twitter (but, as I said, I can see how people made that connection. I'm trying to correct that here)

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myrmepropagandist 16h ago

“lukewarm to politics”

lol what?

@futurebird @blogdiva

Exactly what I just said.
https://mstdn.social/@lucybeahere/116359145950460183

MFennVT 15h ago

@lucybeahere Same thoughts here. If this guy doesn't think we're into politics, he needs to maybe curate his feed a little better. Follow a few hashtags, you know? Actually interact with the fediverse instead of just bloviating. @futurebird @blogdiva

@MFennVT @futurebird @blogdiva

The funny part is this Scott Jensen guy works with Mastodon! He’s not just a random user!

MFennVT 15h ago

@lucybeahere He claims to anyway. Eugen shut him down early in the thread. @futurebird @blogdiva

MFennVT 15h ago

@lucybeahere My mistake. Eugen does say in that thread that they work together. @futurebird @blogdiva Here's the post where he disagrees: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/116352812942715569

Yep, I read all that, but thanks for clarifying for everyone out there! It’s helpful for people to see where all this is coming from!

MFennVT 15h ago

@lucybeahere Sure thing! And that conversation is enormous at this point!

Jensen sounded like he wanted Mastodon to be more like Twitter. I think that today he accomplished that. The conversations are everywhere in my TL! I’d like to go back to No Kings Day, please! Lol

MFennVT 15h ago

@lucybeahere Right? Same here. But on the other hand, I love how news gets around on the fedi in general. Even with all of our curated feeds and decentralized control. Kinda disproves his point, I think.

MFennVT 15h ago

@lucybeahere Although, to be honest, I'm not completely sure what his point is anymore, since he spent so many toots backpedaling. ;)

Again, Mastodon working as intended! My people introducing me to new people that they follow, and the following grows organically over time. Way more than I ever had on Twitter.

MFennVT 15h ago

@lucybeahere Same!

Ludwig Vielfrass 15h ago

@lucybeahere @futurebird @blogdiva I came for #music, stayed for the #politics. My reading here is 60% politics, 30% music, 10% cat pix, and 10% shitposts.

Yes, this is more than 100%. There's overlap!