I will hear a leftist say "if it had not been for tikTok ..." or "if it had not been for twitter ...
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@randulo @macacator @futurebird
well yeah, everyone in *this* thread
not out there
if we get criticism for our actions on the basis of cynicism or perfectionism from some anonymous demanding judgmental voice... who is this person? what are *they* doing? probably nothing but backbiting you
because you act. this bothers them. it challenges their frozen inaction. so they must oppose you, or they have to question their own inadequacies
these are not fellow leftists, these are trolls
@benroyce "in this thread" right, fair enough.
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I will hear a leftist say "if it had not been for tikTok ..." or "if it had not been for twitter ... " these huge social movements like Black Lives Matter would have never been possible. There would have been, they say, a media black out.
And they are correct. And yet, I still detect little sense of urgency or interest from the same people in educating and promoting social media that we can control like the fediverse.
The microphone can be unplugged the cameras cut off at any moment.
@futurebird I set up a work account on FOSS (Cryptpad) and when a colleague couldn’t log in straight away, she immediately wanted me to set it up somewhere “where it isn’t so complicated” – meaning Microsoft. However, in Microsoft applications, it’s a lot more complicated and a lot worse in terms of functionality. But there, the IT department does all the work; employees just log in. It worked – we’ve got an account on Cryptpad.
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@benroyce @futurebird @randulo those lines don't have to be perfect if you've already cut the pole down
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@benroyce I have more means than I used to. I remember what it's like to have fewer options, and I don't judge people who are making the best choices they can.
I judge people with all the options who go with the douchebag one anyway. Sue me.
@dnkboston @benroyce @futurebird @randulo this right here. We're all struggling, but we still find ways to tell the system to go
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I will hear a leftist say "if it had not been for tikTok ..." or "if it had not been for twitter ... " these huge social movements like Black Lives Matter would have never been possible. There would have been, they say, a media black out.
And they are correct. And yet, I still detect little sense of urgency or interest from the same people in educating and promoting social media that we can control like the fediverse.
The microphone can be unplugged the cameras cut off at any moment.
@futurebird I don't think "control" is enough to make a platform more positive for movements like this. I think some of the growth and virality that was possible and achieved for these movements relied not just on the size but also the architecture of these sites.
Famously (there's... some paper explicitly about this), the BlackLivesMatter hashtag (and people organizing within it) started on Facebook, not Twitter -- but it grew into a movement on Twitter.
(Likely, and I believe (which is why I'm bringing it up) because of the architecture & resulting dynamics of the platform as a social space (I think the paper also argues that), but it's also possible that the demographics of the platforms (or their role in the media ecosystem? but that feels like it's not NOT "architecture", maybe) also had an impact. Or maybe not, I don't know enough to say likely or anti-likely in either direction here, hopefully the paper covered it I don't remember it's been years.) -
@dnkboston @benroyce @futurebird @randulo this right here. We're all struggling, but we still find ways to tell the system to go
itself@macacator Our creativity in doing so is part of what gets us through this moment
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I've been trying to establish a pollinator garden in my park. For months I've come to the park and picked up trash in this one little area, because that is what I could do.
One day I came and someone else was there picking up trash too. "I see you all the time! It makes our park nicer."
I could weep.
I have more than just two hands.
@futurebird recently I was in Chicago and ran across a couple of small pollinator gardens that were full of insects, and it was so inspiring.
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I will hear a leftist say "if it had not been for tikTok ..." or "if it had not been for twitter ... " these huge social movements like Black Lives Matter would have never been possible. There would have been, they say, a media black out.
And they are correct. And yet, I still detect little sense of urgency or interest from the same people in educating and promoting social media that we can control like the fediverse.
The microphone can be unplugged the cameras cut off at any moment.
@futurebird it’s just like the people who only are fans of a band when it’s niche and edgy, and ditch it as soon as they’ve “sold out” aka become commercially viable as artists
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@macacator Our creativity in doing so is part of what gets us through this moment
@dnkboston @macacator @benroyce @futurebird Before I shuffle off mastodon for this evening, I appreciate the discussion and those of you taking part.
Thinking is after all what brings about change. (In both directions, unfortunately.) Be as good as you can.
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@macacator @futurebird @randulo
yeah
i'm talking about an internal psychological struggle
but the whole "you're doing something but it's not perfect" sort of "criticism" from outside your efforts, from other "leftists," is some real bullshit
the only real leftists are leftists actually doing something
people sitting and judging others as inadequate or imperfect or "you're doing that but why aren't you doing this" demands etc is nothing but self-serving ego masturbation. it's fake posers
@benroyce @macacator @futurebird @randulo Exactly right. I spoke to members of the so-called Revolutionary Communist Group (RCG) in Nottingham, and they told me the Together march against the far right - which brought half a million people to London this year - was a waste of time because we platformed some
former
Labour politicians. So, people who either defected or were suspended from a party the RCG doesn't like because of the current leadership.These idiots will never achieve anything.
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