MousePotatoDoesStuff

I’d recommend using something like the URL Blocker and blocking the front page

Can you link a few examples?

It’s smaller, and so there is less temptation to scroll when most of the posts I see are the same posts I saw yesterday.

I like the niche linguistic rebels I meet here, and even though I fundamentally disagree with them (“politics” shouldn’t refer to all human group decision, the oakframe is too cryptic for most people to adopt, and “th” is better than "þ"by a wide margin), I respect their willingness to step out of the language comfort zone. Not many people can do that.

Also, I like the idea of starting my own Reddit/Twitter/YouTube, so to speak :D

Yeah, probably. Wouldn’t be the first time, or the last.

Doesn’t matter.

Unfortunately, yes. Best we can do is build a middle space and gently but firmly insist upon nuance.

That’s not what I meant by “one”, but nvm.

Also, if we ever reach that point, I’m not fighting for any of them. And not just for moral reasons - it will be more profitable to steal from them, and since the social contract will be broken anyway…

But I’d rather fo my best now to make sure that doesn’t happen to begin with, and I thankfully live somewhere where my effort might actually might make some impact (the European Union).

Because social media is where nuance goes to die - and that applies to both MLs and us.

A lot of them overcorrect from falling for capitalist propaganda into falling for USSR propaganda

For example, about North Korea. Claims about it are probably exaggerated to some degree, but I sincerely doubt it’s secretly the success story at least one ML I had the displeasure of talking to seems to believe it to be.

The truth is nuanced. Nuance is hard. Blaming everything on the West is easy.

On the other hand, MLs themselves are also more nuanced than we often give them credit.

Unfortunately, like nuance, communication is also hard. Especially in hot-headed situations like this.

I doubt that a civilizational collapse will all happen overnight (or even within a year or a decade). If things fall apart, they will do so over a long period of time (and one might argue this is already happening to some extent).

However, this also means that, given some effort and foresight, we can easily prevent a full collapse by replacing the collapsing systems with something more local and sustainable.

Why would the owners need to keep the system running if they have all the resources and tools?

One need not worry about the game not being able to continue if one already won.

Professionally (like Apollo and Artemis)? Possibly within this century. And the first person setting foot on Mars will likely be a middle-class professional astronaut like Armstrong or Aldrin.

Privately? It’s going to be a while. Middle class people in any country still can’t even go to low Earth orbit, let alone the Moon or Mars.

What would take for thar window to re-open?

It’s more cost-effective to create horrible working conditions for people on Earth than to send them to Mars for it. Just set the launchpad somewhere with very lax worker rights’ laws (or better, somewhere where you can “lobby” for laws to become looser).

Being an evil robber baron is no excuse for inefficiency.

I don’t think that would be nearly as cheap as sending robots to build the mansions and resorts.

Controlware is good.

Content (images, audio, text…) generated by GenAI. It’s slop not quality-wise, but because it’s mass-produced (as opposed to artisanal creations).

Not all slop is AI-generated, though - we had mass-produced content before GenAI, too. GenAI is just turning it up to eleven.

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Well, maybe they had some good points.

I don’t know, but there must be something making people too scared to switch from Reddit /j

I’m still in the process of abandoning Reddit and barely started moving from Discord. Almost completely done with Facebook, though, and deleted Twitter while it was still Twitter.

YouTube will probably be the hardest to replace, and I’ll stay on Bluesky alongside Mastodon for a while.

I guess the hard-core fedi users are naturally overrepresented because they’re posting here a lot more often than others.

Intergenerational humor time

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