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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Show threadyour 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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Show threadyour 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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Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦16h 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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Show threadmyrmepropagandist15h ago

@blogdiva

“lukewarm to politics”

lol what?

Show threadLucy B15h ago

@futurebird @blogdiva

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

Show threadLudwig Vielfrass

@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!

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