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This is probably the closest thing to actual journalism I've ever done.@hazelnot @shlee @cameron is it? I mean like... people thought it was a co-op? I always thought it just meant that the people running it were in something adjacent to the video business and the people on the platform currently were allowed some decision-making power
I mean... it's not Cohost, they're not pretending to be a far left activist group, they're just currently in the stage where capitalism has not yet demanded they shoot the golden goose
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Me in 2017: 🦝 oh thank goodness, social media that feels like the old internet before social media bollocksed everything up@erosdiscordia @msh @ifixcoinops I think most social media would be way better if, like in 2008, it wasn't the primary fucking form of interacting with anyone, and if we somehow...
I dunno, can we build in bright patterns? is that a thing? where people are encouraged to take their privacy seriously, build friendships instead of aspiring to having their every thought heard and reacted to by millions, where watching a feed and having a conversation are not a click away from each other? hell, I'm sure if you get into the psychology, those goals are naive and it's even more complicated than that
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So like, I'm a Star Wars fan, right? I was really into the EU stuff, especially the Yuuzhan Vong stuff, and I have put a frankly unreasonable amount of effort into making sure that I have an Actual Good Version of the original trilogy available for peo...@noracodes I think it's partly Disney and partly because for a lot of people, being part of a dystopia run by fascists has just become part of the hero fantasy
they don't come off as being any more realistic than, like, meeting Jafar or what'shername the evil fairy from Snow White