From my point of view something that brings out the worst in us sounds like a really big part of the issue.

We’ve always been modified by our situations, so why not create better situations rather than lamenting that we don’t have the grit to break through whatever toxic society we find ourselves graphed onto?

Sorry I know I’m putting a lot on your comment that I know you didn’t mean, but I see this kind of unintentional crypto doomerism a lot. I think it holds people to an unhealthy standard.

Yeah decentralization and open source software and protocols being big ones. It means that if the “main” culture turns reactionary, that we’re not trapped in the same spaces as the shithead just because we share a platform.

There could absolutely be two main fediverses, with no changes to the technology.

I just set up a bare repo on a server.

Thank fuck git itself is FOSS. I would be pretty lost without it.

I loooove using m dashes. They’re just so—expressive.

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I think it’s because they’re still trying to get people locked in, or at least feeling like they can’t operate without it.

Twitter must just be more desperate for cash.

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Honestly if the US actually had a left wing party that challenged the status quo, I’m sure he’s vapid enough that he might have tried to get his cult of personality going there.

I don’t think it would have gone well for him because he’s actually just a straight up shitty person, but I feel like for an obvious narcissist like him the party lines are just window dressing.

It works because the thing he really wants is validation, and they gave it to him. Now he’ll continue, and come back around their way again soon, I’m sure.

I can blame them. It sets a very dangerous precedent and tacitly legitimises the maga party’s bad behaviour.

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Ah so it’s the classic “but my hands are forced to do the machine’s bidding” then goes on to do the thing they really wanted to do while their hollow appeal to authority is still echoing.

I believe it’s one of the things corpos love about AI so much - it can be used as a stochastic authority to excuse their behaviour. And if they don’t like what it extrudes? Well they can just shake up the inputs and run it again, until they get what they want.

It’s the same thing with trying to make the fediverse more popular. I’m glad people have found their way to communities they’re happy with, but things were just fine before.

Not sure if you intended this double entendre but https://lgbtqia.wiki/wiki/Zucchini is already associated with platonic relationships in a queer context. Which I could see as being useful cover for a hookup app, but just making sure.

Are there platonic hookups on grindr??

I think their only hope is to go with a small, small story that only hints at the larger world. If they try to go epic then the movie universe begins and ends with this one entry.

I don’t think they can resist the trap of going for the obvious epic world-stakes kind of story though.

Yeah I’ve got to say it is a very positive sign that I don’t know either of these actors. Also helps with suspension of disbelief.

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