Post AWr36RwEB9oaqn41Mu by vortex_egg@ioc.exchange
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(DIR) Post #AWr36LveWNn2DGkTdg by vortex_egg@ioc.exchange
2023-06-18T21:56:17Z
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Our entire information ecosystem is toast.
(DIR) Post #AWr36MxSh8pbPAbR68 by brooklynmarie@mastodon.social
2023-06-18T21:57:28Z
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@vortex_egg We're just fucked. It's awful.
(DIR) Post #AWr36Ng814YndhV6ie by vortex_egg@ioc.exchange
2023-06-18T21:59:07Z
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@brooklynmarie I’ve been thinking about entirely withdrawing from social media, but there really aren’t any better places to stay informed about anything important happening in the world either. It’s all a slurry of spaghettified magical thinking and canalized memetic brainworms, in every direction.
(DIR) Post #AWr36OMfSuaVldP51c by seachanger@alaskan.social
2023-06-18T22:22:21Z
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@vortex_egg @brooklynmarie you guys I’m not following, what are you sub dooming?
(DIR) Post #AWr36PmwAjCABOhZbs by brooklynmarie@mastodon.social
2023-06-18T22:57:33Z
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@seachanger @vortex_egg Oh! I was specifically talking about how dipshit billionaires have been allowed to basically use our info systems as social control but @vortex_egg might have been talking about something else. There's plenty to choose from but it's all bad :(
(DIR) Post #AWr36QRLkTWOCjbqbI by seachanger@alaskan.social
2023-06-18T23:03:45Z
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@brooklynmarie @vortex_egg gotcha. as a co-owner of a brand new place-based server here I’m feeling empowered and excited about socials for the first time maybe ever and I am stubbornly keeping those vibes as long as I can
(DIR) Post #AWr36RB50S6KUZ0Msa by seachanger@alaskan.social
2023-06-19T00:01:59Z
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@brooklynmarie @vortex_egg honestly thousands of new 50-500 person mastodon servers would move us toward resiliency of essential comms in the face of a lot of doom
(DIR) Post #AWr36RwEB9oaqn41Mu by vortex_egg@ioc.exchange
2023-06-19T00:15:15Z
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@seachanger I wasn’t really talking about mastodon, specifically.@brooklynmarie
(DIR) Post #AWr36ScPeJYixcni7c by brooklynmarie@mastodon.social
2023-06-19T15:29:08Z
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@vortex_egg @seachanger Oh yeah neither was I. I truly believe in the power of the fediverse to change our discourse for the better. I'm more concerned right now about our journalism, our libraries and books, our classrooms, our ability to track down peer-reviewed info on line, etc. It just all feels so fragile right now, as we tremble on the precipice of a very different world
(DIR) Post #AWr36TL4yFHvC9hNk8 by brooklynmarie@mastodon.social
2023-06-19T15:33:43Z
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@vortex_egg @seachanger Mastodon could have the power to pull us out of this and I had such hopes for Bluesky which are now fizzling into "well at least I can shitpost there." But I missed whatever the hell's going on with Meta and the fediverse today, only seeing reference to it
(DIR) Post #AWr36U0uSikTHtGmwa by vortex_egg@ioc.exchange
2023-06-19T15:35:20Z
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@brooklynmarie @seachanger Yeah Bluesky is a shitposting hangout zone as of right now. I haven’t seen anything there (or here, or anyone else) that replicates the global information hub that Twitter was at its best.
(DIR) Post #AWr36UpxOva7qD9YVk by seachanger@alaskan.social
2023-06-19T16:02:52Z
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@vortex_egg @brooklynmarie tho even twitter at its best had some very, very serious flaws and was training many people to be in the habit of posting for clout instead of organizing irl. the fediverse is changing quickly and it’s good to pay attention and be involved, we may see it fork in directions that set us up for different but more resilient global communication networks that our communities and organizations have more control over
(DIR) Post #AWr36VPPH7wDc9jrlY by msbellows@c.im
2023-06-19T16:08:16Z
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@seachanger @vortex_egg @brooklynmarie And all of these are flaws in humanity. Put a thousand people together, and you're going to have the same noble principles and selfish behaviors and misunderstandings becoming propaganda. It's not the tech, it's the people, but at least we've been working with systems for dealing with this among people forever. Tech needs to allow itself to be informed by history, sociology, political science, literature, and the history of law.