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134·2 months agoI also hate when people think an echo chamber is something inherently bad. Everything is an echo chamber. Your family, your friends, your local gaming community, your workplace. An echo chamber only becomes a problem when bad actors take control.
Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, or even Google. They give a shit about your wellbeing, as long as they profit.
Echo chambers are okay, no even necessary to stay mentally sane, as long as people share their honest takes without large scale agendas and manipulation.
Controversial take
Meta still collects all the meta data it gets it’s hands on. Also WhatsApp is completely closed source and proprietary. You will never know if they properly encrypt your stuff and if the private keys really never leave your device. You still have to trust Zuckerberg that he properly protects your data … from him.
Europeans don’t like Nazis.
I wish this was true.
Greetings from Austria, where a far right party is the strongest, although not ruling (yet)
Oh boy…
“federated”
That’s were the marketing dollars are
51·2 months agoI really like that
- Have an interesting topic
- Create a community
- Post some interesting stuff
- Federate with other servers
- Keep posting and engage
Only EE. The CE is FOSS https://github.com/toeverything/AFFiNE/blob/canary/packages/backend/server/LICENSE
11·3 months agoAnd backed by Bezos
That sounds like a billion dollar idea!
251·3 months agoBut the Chinese foreign ministry on said any reports that China and the US were nearing a deal were “fake news”.
How low do you have to fall that even China exposes your fake news.
Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
Zuck: Just ask.
Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted Friend’s Name]: What? How’d you manage that one?
Zuck: People just submitted it.
Zuck: I don’t know why.
Zuck: They “trust me”
Zuck: Dumb fucks.
26·3 months agoIf you are still on this platform, you are part of the problem. No excuses.
3·3 months agoOh yeah you could use bridge services like this. But looks like mastodon.social is blocking bird.makeup. So you’d need to use a different Mastodon instance if you want to use this bridge service.
You can see blocked servers on the about page under “Moderated servers”: https://mastodon.social/about
No you cannot. Twitter isn’t part of the Fediverse.
If we are throwing around big words, we have to be precise though.
Echo chambers always existed and we are in them all the time. A few hundreds or thousands years ago, we lived in small groups. Those definitely had different opinions, but overall had the same values. Those were echo chambers. Now, where those bad? No, you want people to be in line on foundational topics.
But if you start to manipulate these opinions on the ground level, you’re going to divide people.
Global warming? Is it really that bad? Migrants? Aren’t the stealing our jobs? LGBTQ+? Aren’t they just harassing our kids and women? Hitler? Was he really that bad???
Do you get what I mean? Echo chambers aren’t the problem. They always existed. It’s bad influence that turns everything to shit.