volkris @volkris@social.cleverlibre.org
Since I guess everything is political these days, I'll identify as extremely liberal but without a home in US politics.
Mainly, there's so much misinformation out there that people in society have trouble even organizing into coherent political groupings. So I'd rather not talk about politics but instead focus on information and education. Nothing else matters until the bedrock of fact is buttressed.
But... people are always going to be wrong on the internet, as the saying goes.
So: Old man yells at clouds is a famous joke from The Simpsons, and it probably fairly describes what we do when venting on social media.
Just speaking into the void, since I figure it's an exercise in futility to conduct discussions on these platforms.
Joined Dec 2022
Hmmm, it appears that when an instance like #qoto posts a #quotepost using its custom feature for that, the quote isn't rendered on #Mastodon .
I was wondering how Mastodon would handle that.
Well, better to avoid that feature for now, I suppose.
(Or, ugh, #quotetoot I suppose. I hate the term toot.)
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From the outside, Twitter's content moderation decisions look haphazard at best. From the inside, they look worse, especially because government officials play an unseemly and arguably unconstitutional role in shaping those decisions.
Read more: https://reason.pub/3uVFIga
volkris
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This is a good night in the #Fediverse all thanks to #Mediaite and of course our demigod of the wind and sea #JohnMastodon
"In other words, based on what we know about fentanyl exposure, it is extremely unlikely that what we saw was Bannick overdosing from inhaling #fentanyl in a gust of wind."
Police say a Florida officer overdosed by being close to fentanyl. Local media bought it. "Something as simple as the wind could expose you and jus...
Today's headlines about #Musk banning journalists from #Twitter strike me as a great illustration of the behavior that has so many people losing faith in #journalism over the years.
Whether one agrees with the twitter policies on doxing or not, for reports to not put the alleged violations front and center is to misinform readers.
Anyone with more knowledge of the event will know those journalistic institutions are presenting a misleading story, and that's just going to reinforce distrust in journalism.
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The FBI frequently flagged joke tweets, asked for moderation. #twitterfiles https://reason.com/2022/12/16/fbi-reported-jokes-tweets-twitter-files-censorship/
Not hesitating to tag @freemo , as per the about :)
One feature I don't see in the #qoto instance that I see in other instances is a quick follow button in the header of hashtag search results, to let you follow that hashtag easily.
I see the "Following hashtags" list in preferences, and I see different options for buttons in the options screen, but I don't see this one.
Am I missing that setting, or is this a feature request?
Since I guess everything is political these days, I'll identify as extremely liberal but without a home in US politics.
Mainly, there's so much misinformation out there that people in society have trouble even organizing into coherent political groupings. So I'd rather not talk about politics but instead focus on information and education. Nothing else matters until the bedrock of fact is buttressed.
But... people are always going to be wrong on the internet, as the saying goes.
So: Old man yells at clouds is a famous joke from The Simpsons, and it probably fairly describes what we do when venting on social media.
Just speaking into the void, since I figure it's an exercise in futility to conduct discussions on these platforms.
Joined Dec 2022
