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 Post subject: Re: Social Media: The God That Failed
PostPosted: Wed November 06, 2019 11:09 pm 
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to quote a down-tweet:
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its not the conspiracy theories or propaganda that will get you kicked off social media - its the copyright violations.


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 Post subject: Re: Social Media: The God That Failed
PostPosted: Wed November 06, 2019 11:11 pm 
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https://www.thehour.com/news/article/Former-Twitter-employees-charged-with-spying-for-14815126.php

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 Post subject: Re: Social Media: The God That Failed
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Decentralized social media has been gaining steam lately. I'm all for decentralization, but I don't understand how decentralization addresses any of the problems he mentions in the thread.
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 Post subject: Re: Social Media: The God That Failed
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If the impeachment has shown me anything on social media it's that I have wack a doos for friends on both sides.
My personal favorite post was from a Trump supporter who thought it was unfair that people can make fun of [Trump's] skin color. What if it is a skin condition instead of a choice. If anyone made rude remarks about Obama's skin color all hell would break loose".


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 Post subject: Re: Social Media: The God That Failed
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 Post subject: Re: Social Media: The God That Failed
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Facebook’s own researchers determined that the system as designed encourages the growth of extremism by (among other things) consistently promoting content to you that is a rhetorical escalation of whatever political content and claims you gravitate to in general. Facebook leadership responded by shelving the research and shutting down efforts to de-escalate the conspiracy/hate promotion.

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 Post subject: Re: Social Media: The God That Failed
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What convenient timing...

https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2 ... ssion=true

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Reddit bans r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse as part of a major expansion of its rules


Also this. At least they aren't trying to hide their bullshit anymore:
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 Post subject: Re: Social Media: The God That Failed
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its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.


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 Post subject: Re: Social Media: The God That Failed
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They won't ban it

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 Post subject: Re: Social Media: The God That Failed
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But it would be so funny if they did.

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its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.


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 Post subject: Re: Social Media: The God That Failed
PostPosted: Wed July 08, 2020 3:20 am 
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They unpersoned Molyneux this week. I figure they'll periodically remove a few far right people here and there until the election (but not all at once), then sometime after they'll switch to removing some leftists.

It's all part of the plan.

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 Post subject: Re: Social Media: The God That Failed
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McParadigm wrote:
Facebook’s own researchers determined that the system as designed encourages the growth of extremism by (among other things) consistently promoting content to you that is a rhetorical escalation of whatever political content and claims you gravitate to in general. Facebook leadership responded by shelving the research and shutting down efforts to de-escalate the conspiracy/hate promotion.

That totally makes sense and reinforces that people are fucking stupid.

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 Post subject: Re: Social Media: The God That Failed
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BurtReynolds wrote:
Decentralized social media has been gaining steam lately. I'm all for decentralization, but I don't understand how decentralization addresses any of the problems he mentions in the thread.
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There is no such thing as "decentralized" in the sense he is implying.

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 Post subject: Re: Social Media: The God That Failed
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I still laugh at that gorka post on the top of this page

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 Post subject: Re: Social Media: The God That Failed
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We’ve recently jumped onto the Ring/Neighbors app... ummm... I can very much see how this drives a bigoted fear of crime.

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 Post subject: Re: Social Media: The God That Failed
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A lot of big Twitter accounts got hacked today. Wouldn't mind seeing those DMs.

https://www.geekwire.com/2020/bill-gate ... -scam/amp/

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 Post subject: Re: Social Media: The God That Failed
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We're free from blue checkmark tyranny!


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 Post subject: Re: Social Media: The God That Failed
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I'm seeing blue check mark accounts tweeting right now though.


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 Post subject: Re: Social Media: The God That Failed
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BurtReynolds wrote:
A lot of big Twitter accounts got hacked today. Wouldn't mind seeing those DMs.

https://www.geekwire.com/2020/bill-gate ... -scam/amp/


I blame Elliot Alderson and Fuck Society. It was only a matter of time before he relapsed.


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 Post subject: Re: Social Media: The God That Failed
PostPosted: Wed July 15, 2020 11:06 pm 
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cutuphalfdead wrote:
I'm seeing blue check mark accounts tweeting right now though.

I'm not seeing any recent ones, but I haven't looked too hard.

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