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The corporate person is a selfish narcissist, a paperclip-maximizing artificial lifeform forever questing after its own advantage. It is an abuser. Like all abusers, it is keenly attuned to any social dynamic that it can use to manipulate its victims, and so social media is highly prized by these immortal colony-organisms.

YES.

Didn’t realize I was reading Doctorow until the end, but amazing essay, thanks OP for sharing.

Interstellar is very bad, that’s not a selling point.

We’re back up!

If it does, the mods and admin under whose aegis I abide are doing an above-average job removing it quickly.

Or maybe it’s just that I avoid political discussion communities these days.

In the end, I find the lemmy / piefed / *bin network much more civil, thoughtful, and compassionate than reddit was.

That’s, uh, not my experience.

Seven years isn’t a bad halflife for a social-media platform. That’s about how long thefacebook was actually usable, that’s about how long I was active on reddit, that’s about how long I was posting on my blog every day. That’s significantly longer than I was using livejournal or iLike.

Nope. No thank you.

It’s a lot less common to see prominent links to RSS feeds on a website these days than it was, say, fifteen years ago.

I do, I’ve been music for a while about an app that had all my fediverse accounts in one place, a long with my email and possibly reddit (but, uh, without ads). I never check my email unless I’m expecting something and I think a big part of why is because it’s a separate flow from checking my other text-based social media.

I agree with Tilley that many of Chambers’s complaints seem Mastodon-specific, or at least not applicable to the threadiverse.

The only really big disagreement in philosophy I have is the complaint about direct messages not being private messages. We’ve all seen the way that private messages have been used to harass users on reddit. That direct messages don’t include an expectation of privacy on lemmy is, to me, a strength rather than a weakness; something that advantages the recipient over the sender, which is the balance of power we want.

Nice! I threw a few favorites up there, I’ll add the lyrics once I get to my desktop after work.

As promised, I have subbed.

I dunno, but I’d sub that.

No thanks! I decided when I switched to lemmy I was gonna avoid politics communities.

no, I’m subbed to many communities on .ml

As I said in the other post, !Chicago@midwest.social

@Five@slrpnk.net is keeping !Chicago@midwest.social alive and active