Red Mosquito

to quote a down-tweet:

its not the conspiracy theories or propaganda that will get you kicked off social media - its the copyright violations.

Decentralized social media has been gaining steam lately. I'm all for decentralization, but I don't understand how decentralization addresses any of the problems he mentions in the thread.
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If the impeachment has shown me anything on social media it's that I have wack a doos for friends on both sides.
My personal favorite post was from a Trump supporter who thought it was unfair that people can make fun of [Trump's] skin color. What if it is a skin condition instead of a choice. If anyone made rude remarks about Obama's skin color all hell would break loose".

Lord

Facebook’s own researchers determined that the system as designed encourages the growth of extremism by (among other things) consistently promoting content to you that is a rhetorical escalation of whatever political content and claims you gravitate to in general. Facebook leadership responded by shelving the research and shutting down efforts to de-escalate the conspiracy/hate promotion.

What convenient timing...

https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2 ... ssion=true

Reddit bans r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse as part of a major expansion of its rules

Also this. At least they aren't trying to hide their bullshit anymore:

Rip to hundreds of TikTok teens

They won't ban it

But it would be so funny if they did.

They unpersoned Molyneux this week. I figure they'll periodically remove a few far right people here and there until the election (but not all at once), then sometime after they'll switch to removing some leftists.

It's all part of the plan.

McParadigm wrote:Facebook’s own researchers determined that the system as designed encourages the growth of extremism by (among other things) consistently promoting content to you that is a rhetorical escalation of whatever political content and claims you gravitate to in general. Facebook leadership responded by shelving the research and shutting down efforts to de-escalate the conspiracy/hate promotion.

That totally makes sense and reinforces that people are fucking stupid.

BurtReynolds wrote:Decentralized social media has been gaining steam lately. I'm all for decentralization, but I don't understand how decentralization addresses any of the problems he mentions in the thread.
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There is no such thing as "decentralized" in the sense he is implying.

I still laugh at that gorka post on the top of this page

We’ve recently jumped onto the Ring/Neighbors app... ummm... I can very much see how this drives a bigoted fear of crime.

A lot of big Twitter accounts got hacked today. Wouldn't mind seeing those DMs.

https://www.geekwire.com/2020/bill-gate ... -scam/amp/

We're free from blue checkmark tyranny!

I'm seeing blue check mark accounts tweeting right now though.

BurtReynolds wrote:A lot of big Twitter accounts got hacked today. Wouldn't mind seeing those DMs.

https://www.geekwire.com/2020/bill-gate ... -scam/amp/

I blame Elliot Alderson and Fuck Society. It was only a matter of time before he relapsed.

cutuphalfdead wrote:I'm seeing blue check mark accounts tweeting right now though.

I'm not seeing any recent ones, but I haven't looked too hard.