Great piece on BlueSky and enshittification by @pluralistic. “I will never again devote my energies to building up an audience on a platform whose management can sever my relationship to that audience at will.”
Read more: mollywhite.net/micro/entry/blu…
Cory’s piece: pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/uly…
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“… the excerpt tape is a mere fraction of some ‘100 hours of Epstein talking about the inner workings of the Trump White House & about his longstanding, deep relationship w/ Donald Trump.’”
Don’t you wish any of it made a difference to his supporters? It should, but it doesn’t—because Trump voters are as depraved, as degenerate, as immoral as he is. #VoteBlue2024
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While I want to believe that, Trump showed us that he wasn't really "kidding" about his rhetoric after 2016.
His administration was just incompetent and the separation of powers kept the worst at bay. With the SCOTUS as it is now and almost all "never Trumpers" exiled from the GOP, that isn't nearly as guaranteed this time around.
Trump supporters really ARE garbage people at this point. If you vote Trump after EVERYTHING we know now, you're a fascist.
Acts of Blood - a brutal Indonesian third person beat 'em up inspired by The Raid! alphabetagamer.com/acts-of-blo…
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Kemi Badenoch has been elected leader of the Conservatives by appealing to their very worst instincts.
The politics she represents are no basis for building a fairer society - as we saw over the last 14 years - and Scotland will continue to reject them at the ballot box.
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"If you’re following the news, you know that Trump has been working overtime to spread election lies to set the stage to contest the results of the election if he doesn’t win. Experts are warning of the threat of political violence surging in the aftermath of the election. The International Crisis Group has issued a detailed study of risks of violence around the 2024 election."
~ Kristin Du Mez
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Also, some of his MAGA devotees have realized that he hasn't helped any of the J6 followers who were arrested and are currently in jail.
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NEUROLIVE Performance 4: Readings of what was never written - Siobhan Davies Studios
A new performance from Matthias Sperling in collaboration with Temitope Ajose, Ben Ash, Iris Yi Po Chan and Katye Coe. Commissioned by NEUROLIVE. “To read what was never written.Siobhan Davies Dance
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"Make no mistake Donald Trump's abortion ban did this," said one reproductive rights leader. "We must stop him."
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"Such dehumanization cannot help but trigger our associations with scenes depicting the Nazis loading Jews into cattle cars."
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From @drvolts:
I’m really getting tired of corporate mass media. Yeah, there’s some good journalism in there but there are perverse incentives by the barrelful.
After Watergate, the fascists resolved to neuter mainstream journalism so it wouldn’t threaten them again. Fox News, the end of the fairness doctrine, the corporate integration of news organizations into entertainment divisions, all played a hand in that successful endeavor.
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Worth watching, and sharing with the GOP voters you know:
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#trump #DonaldTrump #harris #KamalaHarris #election #elections #election2024 #politics #political #USpol #USpolitics #vote
Tlaib declines to endorse Harris at UAW rally in Detroit (Max Reinhart/The Detroit News)
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A New York Supreme Court judge stripped Rudy Giuliani of his ability to talk during his sexual harassment trial Wednesday, insisting that the former New York City mayor was only hurting himself by continuing to speak.
spinbackwards
in reply to Molly White • • •I'm a Cory fan.
But if his message is he can't leave X, I'm calling bunk.
He has a newsletter, he's in the Fediverse. The customers who he depends on - folks like me who buy his books and what not - will follow him.
If we're going to have a better world for the children we have to make uncomfortable changes. Stop eating anything with a face or a mother, divest from fascists like Musk, consume way less.
Anything else is rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
Molly White
in reply to spinbackwards • • •Jonathan
in reply to Molly White • • •@spinbackwards
I think he's referring to this paragraph
"But here's the thing: all those other platforms, the ones where I unwisely allowed myself to get locked in, where today I find myself trapped by the professional, personal and political costs of leaving them, they were all started by people who swore they'd never sell out."
manieo
in reply to Molly White • • •groxx
in reply to Molly White • • •tbh if they're a POSSE-doer and that's the message... it would probably be good to get a mention of that in that post or any post it links to.
As much as I enjoy Mastodon, it's really not any better with regards to "ability to enshittify and take your profile" because accounts are linked to sites, and portability is cooperative instead of controlled by the account-owner. Any host that disables that cooperation locks you in just as much as twitter/blusky/email/etc.
groxx
in reply to groxx • • •Molly White
in reply to groxx • • •groxx
in reply to Molly White • • •ah, yep, I missed clicking through to that link for some reason. Thanks!
I think my point still mostly stands tho. It's at the end, in a very large linked post, well after the main link's text claims Mastodon (activity pub / federation in general) solves the issue... when "the issue" is "account portability that can't be revoked when enshittified" which is like 95% not true. Though it has a decent chance to be true eventually, which puts it way ahead of most options.
mkj
in reply to groxx • • •@groxx Mastodon is FAR better in terms of being able to move. Yes, an evil admin can resist account migrations. But you can actually *run Mastodon yourself*. It's not even particularly expensive. We're talking on the order of 10-15 $/€/£ per month for a VERY usable setup. You can host it yourself on a VPS somewhere, or you can pay a company *specifically* to host it for you, while retaining control yourself. For a locked-down single-user instance, the management overhead is minimal.
@molly0xfff
groxx
in reply to mkj • • •@mkj personal hosting is a strong candidate for "truly better", yeah. Definitely agreed there.
But I'll point out that neither author hosts their own. Nor are they recommending hosting their own (as part of this post, which is all many not-already-subscribed readers will read. I'm not sure elsewhere).
If the claim is "get free from enshittification, I did", they're not taking or recommending that critical step to *actually avoid it*. The article just says "use mastodon".
groxx
in reply to groxx • • •Molly White
in reply to groxx • • •groxx
in reply to Molly White • • •yeah, and I think that's what most should do. Extremely cheap, generally migratable, and about the only enshittification risk is ICANN which is pretty acceptable. POSSE is great. A bit high-skill, but not bad compared to many computer things, and there are a lot of side benefits to that knowledge.
It is a shame POSSE social networking isn't a thing yet. Outside very small niches anyway.
Evan Genest
in reply to Molly White • • •Ernie Smith
in reply to Molly White • • •appreciate everyone involved, but think this POV on Bluesky is somewhat misguided.
At a time when other social networks have leadership that varies between chaotic neutral and chaotic evil, it is hard to dismiss Bluesky just because prior leaders folded under pressure.
I like it there and I like it here. Bet on both horses. But understand how the horses make hay.
xs4me2
in reply to Molly White • • •Roni Rolle Laukkarinen
in reply to Molly White • • •People on Bluesky bash Cory's text as false 🤔
#Bluesky
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in reply to Molly White • • •tlwest
in reply to Molly White • • •I see the fundamental problem being any social media site with an eventual target of 10-100m users is going to require 100m or so in financing to develop all the features necessary to attract and keep a huge number of users, almost all who don’t care about anything except the initial experience.
You don’t attract 100m in highly speculative financing without offering the chance of big returns if the bet happens to pay off.