Idea I've floated over there (and on twitter) that I want to float here:

ATProto / Bluesky for social media is *bad* actually. Worse than here and even Twitter, precisely for the reason people might think it's better.

By "verifying" and rebroadcasting everything in a more precise way, you make it more dangerous by creating "better surveillance"

Mastodon ends up being better due to plausible deniability

#twitter #mastodon #bluesky #socialmedia #atproto #privacy #surveillance

Today, tech people discovering what black voters already knew about Bernie Sanders

#blackmastodon #blackfedi #uspol #ai #technology

Present thought

Mastodon's the right model. But to be truly *useful* politcally - the Bluesky/Mastodonian idea of "we will make our safe space over here" might be pleasant for many and that's fine

But they're not healthy for useful political discourse, which is often ugly, but generates the necessary talk.

The discussions I'm seeing on Twitter/threads e.g. left v. liberal are finally getting "good." (among others)

#socialmedia #mastodon #twitter #blackfedi #blackmastodon

Again, I don't know how it's happening. But Twitter is presently absolutely the home of some amazing and difficult and definitely necessary discourse on the tension between

"Epstein proves that all men are potential predators"

and

"All men are predators is extremely adjacent to, if not overlapping with, what killed Emmiitt Till"

#socialmedia #twitter #blackmastodon #blackfedi

Again, I *want* this place, mastodon, to succeed.

But right now, we gotta be real. Twitter is *the streets.* Bluesky and here are safe spaces and that's fine.

But *us* being over there is still unfortunately probably important.

#blackmastodon #blackfedi #uspol