Gave a talk on the future of work, thinking: the issue here is that work is broken but higher ed can't find the words for this so instead we say "everything is awesome".
The gig economy, work on demand, uberisation, everything is awesome.
And the thing is, it's really not, not if you get sick or you want to raise kids or you have a tiny hope of owning a home or you want to pay off college debt.
None of these ways of working are awesome, except for the people who profit from your work.
So now I'm cranky, because if people withdraw from the economy like employers have withdrawn from the obligations they used to have towards workers, then the entire economy is not-awesomed.
Except for those 8 men who are worth more than 50% of the rest of us. They seem to be doing OK.
Thinking: it's actually pretty remarkable to think of a platform like this as a place to come and pull up a chair and be grumpy among friends.
This is stuff I'm not saying on Twitter.
So I do have an instinctual trust of something here. I wonder what that is?
I agree that this is the pattern, but that only happens because the forum tech is somehow treated as "oh it can't pick a side, what happens happens" (I.e. FB news team debacle)
As in, the engineers of these systems- Twitter, forums, Reddit, facebook- decided a-priori it "wasn't their job" to culture community, and build according to their needs.
They build gardens but refuse to put up fences & weed regularly, then wonder where all the pretty flowers went.
@twryst @kcsaff This question of how to culture community is really critical.
I keep thinking that mastodon's asset is in staying fairly small and low profile (@Tdorey has really educated me about small acts).
But you're also exactly right that it's about seeing how people are treated here. It sets a standard of care, across wildly different demographics.
Kate
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