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Everything has its purpose.
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@lyndamerry484 @freequaybuoy Paying attention. What should I be doing about it? I do not have a rival bid.
@tokyo_0 @lyndamerry484 @freequaybuoy
Minimize your usage of their products / services:
- Mastodon is a great start
- Look at other news sources but always check their ownership. Independent Media > Independent State owned Media
- Switch from propriety software to open source whenever possibleList of Independent Media to get you started:
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@lyndamerry484 there is a giant urgency to replace our money-driven societies world-wide with value-driven societies. Money is an ideologie, that is, when applied as a mean to organise, classify the society, in stead of a simple mean to swap goods. Money has become THE political power which is idiotic and truely fascist. Better criteria are wisdom, a sense of fairness, granting the diggers of raw materials full autonomy and paying them for the actual value of the mined goods.
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@lyndamerry484 can this people stop using X to complain about X ?
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@lyndamerry484 Would've loved to share this. Won't.
one of the early replies has a version with alt-text
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@lyndamerry484 We talk about it all the time, but as was stated, we don't control the means to mass communicate. So my little group of a couple hundred people might be dialed in to what's happening, but there are hundreds of millions of people who have no clue what is going on.
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@lyndamerry484 American billionaires control Tiktok? This is news to me.
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@lyndamerry484 Well, I don't use or watch any of those....
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Re: news outlets,
It's dire that big media has all been co-opted by the right wing. Yet, there are so many amazing, brave, excellent independent news orgs out there, needing and deserving support. As well as independent journalists, social critics, and others with individual forums (blogs, etc).
I think the age of media conglomerates is dying, and it's a beautiful and exciting landscape for independent journalism! They need our support.
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Re: news outlets,
It's dire that big media has all been co-opted by the right wing. Yet, there are so many amazing, brave, excellent independent news orgs out there, needing and deserving support. As well as independent journalists, social critics, and others with individual forums (blogs, etc).
I think the age of media conglomerates is dying, and it's a beautiful and exciting landscape for independent journalism! They need our support. >age of media conglomerates is dying
Sorry, that was poor phrasing on my part. Not "dying" per se (as conglomerates will continue to conglomerate), but in the death knells. Their product will be right-leaning "infotainment." Some people like consuming that, but anyone in search of actual news and truth does not. Any real journalists will continue to bail/ be fired. Those companies will probably keep some number of bleary-eyed consumers who love infotainment. not me!
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@lyndamerry484 That's the real problem:
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@NatureMC
a Melanie D‘Arrigo @
A i @DarrigoMelanieTrump’s billionaire allies will now own CNN,
Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ and NY Post —
plus 185+ local tv stations and news in 100
markets.They also control X, Facebook, Instagram,
Threads, WhatsApp, TikTok, Truth and
Twitch.They control the Al you're integrating into
your lives, the algorithms feeding you
content, and your personal data you've
given up for access.This is all by design to manipulate and
surveil us, and we’re not talking enoughabout it.
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@lyndamerry484 this is why i think mastodon is living on borrowed time
@Kierkegaanks @lyndamerry484 One of the great feature and also one of its major pain points is that you can't buy the network wholesale, and any attempt would result in a carved-in isolated network like Truth.social.
Still, Mastodon is on borrowed time but not from threat of buyout, but rather by regulating it into oblivion with the social media age restriction policies that have cropped up in the UK and in many other places.
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@Kierkegaanks @lyndamerry484 One of the great feature and also one of its major pain points is that you can't buy the network wholesale, and any attempt would result in a carved-in isolated network like Truth.social.
Still, Mastodon is on borrowed time but not from threat of buyout, but rather by regulating it into oblivion with the social media age restriction policies that have cropped up in the UK and in many other places.
@lyndamerry484 @hypolite yes i think it will be torpedoed by legal corruption
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@fname @lyndamerry484 The only real choice we have is to not give them our eyes and ears. Without eyes and ears there can be no ad revenue. Without ad revenue the media businesses are not viable. We just need to collectively stop watching and listening.
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@lyndamerry484
Now with Alt-Text!@RealGene @lyndamerry484 Thank you for adding #AltText
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@lyndamerry484 I I do not subscribe to nor will I click on or boost stories from CNN, Fox, CBS, WaPo, WSJ and NY Post. (sometimes I mess up if the headline is compelling.)
I do not have a presence on X, Facebook, Insta, Threads, WhatsApp, TikTok, Truth or Twitch.
It's so easy, folks. Take back your lives. -
@tokyo_0 @lyndamerry484 @freequaybuoy
Minimize your usage of their products / services:
- Mastodon is a great start
- Look at other news sources but always check their ownership. Independent Media > Independent State owned Media
- Switch from propriety software to open source whenever possibleList of Independent Media to get you started:
https://www.trustworthymedia.org/list-of-independent-media/@RantingCanuck @tokyo_0 @lyndamerry484 @freequaybuoy BBC News America?
