The Bush-era liberal fetish for engagement and discussion as a way to win over people are on the right has done a lot of damage to a lot of brains, and I’m glad people are finally starting to figure it out.
That’s why bluesky is so peaceful and fun. I had to leave Twitter when I saw an ad directly attacking me as a Jewish person and mtg literally said she would end lgbtqia+ people. Twitter is a shit show
Mass-uasge of old forum etiquette on social media would help a lot. “Don’t feed the trolls” was like rule #1 on a lot of them, and repeatedly engaging could get you banned as well.
My experience on here is that where you would see nazis on X, you see a drawing of a dragon boning a raccoon or some other totally innocuous internet shit on Bluesky.
I like how it wasn’t that people talked about it being what should be the case. The vast majority of the community just implicitly agreed not to bother engaging and simply continue to have fun together.
I wish people would often hold back what doesn't actually contribute. I don't understand the necessity of creating a power dichotomy of who is right, it's like making dialogue a competitive sport lol
It turned so many corners of Twitter insanely toxic and echo chambery, especially with any remotely political topic. It even creeped its way into everything else with the constant drama going on at any large corner there
I just deleted my last account (2017-2023), the platform is on a track to be removed from the store eventually anyways so I wanted to be proactive. But also yeah, it was becoming stagnant, every topic was a dead horse. I mostly follow scientists on here now rather than a bundle of explicit leftists.
Blocking Nazis is self care, but there are side effects, not challenging them gives their indoctrination techniques time to work on the susceptible and gives them time to plan crimes. Take care of yourself, but don't abandon the fight
The issue is that social networks are not about winning the argument, they are about visibility. Whoever can drive the conversation is already winning. Engaging spreads the message; the more people engage thinking they are winning the argument, the more the message becomes available and normalized.
I seriously don't have context but hope they're not on here already because... well. I just had a jumpscare from a screenshot of that other place thinking it was occurring here too.
huh.
I seriously don't know how reporting works with this protocol ?
it's very uh... what's the word for open standards which aren't compatible with previous open standards?
half-baked infrastructure admin gripe.
every 5-10 years someone comes up with at least 1 new protocol. there's gotta be hundreds of microblogging implementations at this point and I'm positive none of them handle blocking the same way.
bsky opted to be a new thing.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OStatus
Ah I see. I know there’s not much I can do so I was merely talking about the “don’t feed the trolls” path of block and report before moving on to show the terrible people currently turning Twitter into a cesspool that they aren’t welcome here
Great first step. Pity though I'm not seeing something I asked on Twitter before I left it, namely to seek out voices not heard enough. Put it bluntly: if you only register Orbán when he appears on tucker but disregard what the does through cpac it's still not being up to date.
