#virtuesignalling — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #virtuesignalling, aggregated by home.social.
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Reform’s Radical Agenda: Give the Voters What They Want
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@RainbowFrog @grammasaurus @wdlindsy
Virtue Signalling seems a good term for "good" people who say their #truth but never help #debate or #explain it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue_signalling
#1way posts hold quite an ineffective position as it's not deeper #communication or deeper #2way "understanding".
Almost non-participatory distance / echoes/ #nonplayers.
At least the bad #Trump etc give their bullshit reasoning.
Many good guys / #victims don't want to explain the logic.
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@RainbowFrog @grammasaurus @wdlindsy
Virtue Signalling seems a good term for "good" people who say their #truth but never help #debate or #explain it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue_signalling
#1way posts hold quite an ineffective position as it's not deeper #communication or deeper #2way "understanding".
Almost non-participatory distance / echoes/ #nonplayers.
At least the bad #Trump etc give their bullshit reasoning.
Many good guys / #victims don't want to explain the logic.
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@RainbowFrog @grammasaurus @wdlindsy
Virtue Signalling seems a good term for "good" people who say their #truth but never help #debate or #explain it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue_signalling
#1way posts hold quite an ineffective position as it's not deeper #communication or deeper #2way "understanding".
Almost non-participatory distance / echoes/ #nonplayers.
At least the bad #Trump etc give their bullshit reasoning.
Many good guys / #victims don't want to explain the logic.
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A colleague shared a post today that inspired this, let's say, 'response'. Do #LLMs ruin everything?
This is always in the back of my head anyway, so it wasn't particularly difficult to write a #blog post and ask #NotebookLM to summarise it for a #podcast.
#philosophy #language #artificialintelligence #virtuesignalling #culture #gatekeeping art #creativity #innovation #psychology #society ##games #books #reading #writing #absorbtion #influence #literature #homeschool
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A colleague shared a post today that inspired this, let's say, 'response'. Do #LLMs ruin everything?
This is always in the back of my head anyway, so it wasn't particularly difficult to write a #blog post and ask #NotebookLM to summarise it for a #podcast.
#philosophy #language #artificialintelligence #virtuesignalling #culture #gatekeeping art #creativity #innovation #psychology #society ##games #books #reading #writing #absorbtion #influence #literature #homeschool
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A colleague shared a post today that inspired this, let's say, 'response'. Do #LLMs ruin everything?
This is always in the back of my head anyway, so it wasn't particularly difficult to write a #blog post and ask #NotebookLM to summarise it for a #podcast.
#philosophy #language #artificialintelligence #virtuesignalling #culture #gatekeeping art #creativity #innovation #psychology #society ##games #books #reading #writing #absorbtion #influence #literature #homeschool
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@scribblanitea @RolloTreadway Will the occasional #gammaRay escape do the #virtueSignalling part?
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@scribblanitea @RolloTreadway Will the occasional #gammaRay escape do the #virtueSignalling part?
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@scribblanitea @RolloTreadway Will the occasional #gammaRay escape do the #virtueSignalling part?
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@scribblanitea @RolloTreadway Will the occasional #gammaRay escape do the #virtueSignalling part?
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@scribblanitea @RolloTreadway Will the occasional #gammaRay escape do the #virtueSignalling part?
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The mom pushing the baby carriage, and the grandmother with her I presume, were happily surprised that I clearly stepped in the puddle of water so they could pass me.
#virtuesignalling my goodness.
Although, it's less a feat when you factor in that:
1. My boots are waterproof and winter ready.
2. I avoid picturing my own mother slapping me across the head and telling me she raised me better than that.Doing myself the favour, really.
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Got This Prompt From LinkedIn That 'My' Shared Spatial/GIS Roles Newsletter Subscriber Count Popped Over 11K
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https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7397678824928366594 OR https://earthstuff.substack.com/ <-- shared (free) subscribable weekly newsletter links, same content
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I have a (free) subscribable, weekly list of spatial/GIS roles & resources that I ‘encounter’, *mostly* North America but global also...
I am NOT looking for any validation, certainly NOT #virtuesignalling - but it is nice to see that compiling these weekly lists seems to be of some use to people 🙃
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Note that I am not associated with recruiting or HR in any way, so NO commissions or the like - just a community service if you will ☺️
#fridayjobs #gischat #jobsonfriday #GIS #spatial #job #jobopenings #hiring #newjob #employment #roles #GISJobs #NotARecruiter #fridayspatialjobs #scholarship #CareersInSpatial #career #openroles #Geomatics #GIS #Innovation #Growth #caveatNONemptor -
Got This Prompt From LinkedIn That 'My' Shared Spatial/GIS Roles Newsletter Subscriber Count Popped Over 11K
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https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7397678824928366594 OR https://earthstuff.substack.com/ <-- shared (free) subscribable weekly newsletter links, same content
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I have a (free) subscribable, weekly list of spatial/GIS roles & resources that I ‘encounter’, *mostly* North America but global also...
I am NOT looking for any validation, certainly NOT #virtuesignalling - but it is nice to see that compiling these weekly lists seems to be of some use to people 🙃
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Note that I am not associated with recruiting or HR in any way, so NO commissions or the like - just a community service if you will ☺️
#fridayjobs #gischat #jobsonfriday #GIS #spatial #job #jobopenings #hiring #newjob #employment #roles #GISJobs #NotARecruiter #fridayspatialjobs #scholarship #CareersInSpatial #career #openroles #Geomatics #GIS #Innovation #Growth #caveatNONemptor -
Got This Prompt From LinkedIn That 'My' Shared Spatial/GIS Roles Newsletter Subscriber Count Popped Over 11K
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https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7397678824928366594 OR https://earthstuff.substack.com/ <-- shared (free) subscribable weekly newsletter links, same content
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I have a (free) subscribable, weekly list of spatial/GIS roles & resources that I ‘encounter’, *mostly* North America but global also...
I am NOT looking for any validation, certainly NOT #virtuesignalling - but it is nice to see that compiling these weekly lists seems to be of some use to people 🙃
--
Note that I am not associated with recruiting or HR in any way, so NO commissions or the like - just a community service if you will ☺️
#fridayjobs #gischat #jobsonfriday #GIS #spatial #job #jobopenings #hiring #newjob #employment #roles #GISJobs #NotARecruiter #fridayspatialjobs #scholarship #CareersInSpatial #career #openroles #Geomatics #GIS #Innovation #Growth #caveatNONemptor -
Got This Prompt From LinkedIn That 'My' Shared Spatial/GIS Roles Newsletter Subscriber Count Popped Over 11K
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https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7397678824928366594 OR https://earthstuff.substack.com/ <-- shared (free) subscribable weekly newsletter links, same content
--
I have a (free) subscribable, weekly list of spatial/GIS roles & resources that I ‘encounter’, *mostly* North America but global also...
I am NOT looking for any validation, certainly NOT #virtuesignalling - but it is nice to see that compiling these weekly lists seems to be of some use to people 🙃
--
Note that I am not associated with recruiting or HR in any way, so NO commissions or the like - just a community service if you will ☺️
#fridayjobs #gischat #jobsonfriday #GIS #spatial #job #jobopenings #hiring #newjob #employment #roles #GISJobs #NotARecruiter #fridayspatialjobs #scholarship #CareersInSpatial #career #openroles #Geomatics #GIS #Innovation #Growth #caveatNONemptor -
"At least we're doing something!"
Nothing useful, and definitely nothing that would displease the billionaires, but it's something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxRB5qWphJE
#socialmedia #Australia #brainrot #bigtech #corruption #virtueSignalling
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CW: ❓ #Fascism ❓= anything "Bad" ❓❓❓ + #AntiFa / #AntiFascist = All Good ❓❓❓
#Fascism = anything "Bad" ⁉️❓
(modern day version incorrectly used)
#Fascistic is better (perhaps but still sometimes too generally...)
#AntiFascist / #AntiFa also a good thing
...but too broadly used by those who generally don't know what it means (to others who also don't know but might accept it as 'bad' which it might be but not specific enought)... similar to #AntiFa or Anti-Fascist - which maybe everyone wants to be but really can't care enough when it comes down to it to do it all themselves / #DIY. It's #virtuesignalling which I accept a #virtuesignal is part of trying and helps accept things enough to try more levels of.
Debate welcome on this #audio...
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CW: ❓ #Fascism ❓= anything "Bad" ❓❓❓ + #AntiFa / #AntiFascist = All Good ❓❓❓
#Fascism = anything "Bad" ⁉️❓
(modern day version incorrectly used)
#Fascistic is better (perhaps but still sometimes too generally...)
#AntiFascist / #AntiFa also a good thing
...but too broadly used by those who generally don't know what it means (to others who also don't know but might accept it as 'bad' which it might be but not specific enought)... similar to #AntiFa or Anti-Fascist - which maybe everyone wants to be but really can't care enough when it comes down to it to do it all themselves / #DIY. It's #virtuesignalling which I accept a #virtuesignal is part of trying and helps accept things enough to try more levels of.
Debate welcome on this #audio...
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Gibt es schon lange in NRW, hakt aber komplett bei Vierjährigen, die nicht in der KiTa sind.
Der Trend, dass 20% der Grundschülys nicht in einer KiTa waren, etabliert sich gerade.
Leider auch hier: #Prien ist Lichtjahre weit entfernt von der Realität.
Das ist gut für #virtueSignalling in der #BlödZeitung und schürt kräftig rassistische Ressentiments.
Der #fckafd gefällt das.
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The Clueless #virtuesignalling Guide to looking like an enlightened #digitalrights activist:
- Promote/defend #Bluesky, #Telegram, and #Brave as the leading-edge of #privacy and freedom.
- Promote #Linux and #FOSS by ridiculing anyone who talks about it.
- If all else fails, call-out non-corporate alternatives that threaten the establishment as #communist and anti-social.With friends like these, who needs enemies.
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CW: UKpol, nationalism
Reform prioritises virtue signalling over substance.
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If Zuck says deleting Facebook is "Virtue Signalling" does that means staying on Facebook and Twitter and Instagram is "Vice signalling"?
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If Zuck says deleting Facebook is "Virtue Signalling" does that means staying on Facebook and Twitter and Instagram is "Vice signalling"?
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If Zuck says deleting Facebook is "Virtue Signalling" does that means staying on Facebook and Twitter and Instagram is "Vice signalling"?
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If Zuck says deleting Facebook is "Virtue Signalling" does that means staying on Facebook and Twitter and Instagram is "Vice signalling"?
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If Zuck says deleting Facebook is "Virtue Signalling" does that means staying on Facebook and Twitter and Instagram is "Vice signalling"?
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It's weird how #whitePeople remind you that they stole the land they live on in an attempt to absolve themselves of that guilt.
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@hs0ucy Élucid, c'est génial (et son papa les-crises )
Celleux qui en ont les moyens, supportez les financièrement!
En prime, une analyse rapide du vote de l'UE: https://elucid.media/analyse-graphique/dissolution-assemblee-nationale-macron-coup-poker-sabotage-historique
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#fedipact who? lol
I'd rather not really care about this signature thing which essentially is #virtuesignalling. Personally I don't really mind if I'm in an instance that blocks #Threads or not. Allow, suspend, limit, go do your thing and leave others alone. If I really need to anyway I can always go to another instance that allows federation.
What I'm not comfortable with all this hype is what's basically "adminjerking", where #fediadmins unironically circlejerking each other over how it's so cool to decide for hundreds or thousands of users on who they can interact with. Glorification of "admin authority" so to speak.
I'd rather not have any part of it. :seija_coffee:
#fediblockmeta
RE: https://bv.umbrellix.org/objects/d0ee4c9f-d4ad-4d8d-b858-6bda48caeb04 -
I don't know whether to laugh at how #absurd this #comparison is or be angry because of how insultingly #out-of-touch this #American take is to millions of #Palestinians living in #Gaza and the #WestBank of #Palestine :koishtare:
I just don't want to feel anymore tbh. It's just #virtuesignalling by privileged Westerners everywhere. :seija_coffee:
#USpol #USpolitics #Trump #Biden
RE: https://universeodon.com/users/LaNaehForaday/statuses/111438056808911136 -
@nitpicking OK, but the point was that the #RepublicanParty is constantly #VirtueSignalling that “#CharacterMatters “, when in fact the only consistent characteristic they display is #hypocrisy. 🤷🏻♂️
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@ralphruthe Toll, du machst #VirtueSignalling und holst die einfachen Punkte. :blobcatfingerguns: Außerdem sehr verkürzend und polemisch, #Söder hat noch viel mehr schlechte Eigenschaften.
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Good article about the many facets of #virtuesignalling in Aeon.
The core of human behaviour is always social. With a theory of mind we are right to question shows of virtue as potentially inauthentic, but in the same breath we are almost certainly engaging in something similar ourselves, but signalling to a different audience.
On social media, criticism and signalling usually happen in the same instance.
#sociology #culture #socialmedia
https://aeon.co/essays/why-virtue-signalling-is-not-just-a-vice-but-an-evolved-tool
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Seems like mighty fine #VirtueSignalling / #greenwashing #coffee
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CW: Long thread/6
The far right has even managed to co-opt anti-corporate rhetoric. Culture warriors rail against "#WokeCapitalism," insisting that when big businesses take socially progressive positions, it's just empty "#VirtueSignalling." And you know what? They've got a point. Partially.
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Oh God, #LuxuryBeliefs is the new #VirtueSignalling is the new #PoliticalCorrectness
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@bonifartius
They should also be fighting for peace, real peace not militarism for peace, because wars and instability fuel all sorts of bad environmental effects.They should also be working to limit urban expansion (both horizontal and vertical). Family planning availability, as well as fighting to have more organic and localised farming. Lower meat consumption. More localised, demilitarised social networks, etc.
So much to do, yet that admin was vastly #virtueSignalling.
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I've to agree with #HughJeffreys in that #Apple's "#Envoirmentalism" and "#Sustainability" is just #VirtueSignalling" when their #AntiRepairDesign prevents people frim #Repair & #UseLonger which is inherently superior to creating #eWaste that needs to be #recycled - if that's even fully possible at all...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s7NmMl_-yg&t=94s -
I've to agree with #HughJeffreys in that #Apple's "#Envoirmentalism" and "#Sustainability" is just #VirtueSignalling" when their #AntiRepairDesign prevents people frim #Repair & #UseLonger which is inherently superior to creating #eWaste that needs to be #recycled - if that's even fully possible at all...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s7NmMl_-yg&t=94s -
I've to agree with #HughJeffreys in that #Apple's "#Envoirmentalism" and "#Sustainability" is just #VirtueSignalling" when their #AntiRepairDesign prevents people frim #Repair & #UseLonger which is inherently superior to creating #eWaste that needs to be #recycled - if that's even fully possible at all...
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@corbin +9001%
#Apple's #VirtueSignalling about #Envoirmentalism falls complete on it's face when they purposefully design their products to be #unrepairable and inevitably fail over time!
#Repairability, #UseLonger and #Upsycling are inherently better than anything else!
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@corbin +9001%
#Apple's #VirtueSignalling about #Envoirmentalism falls complete on it's face when they purposefully design their products to be #unrepairable and inevitably fail over time!
#Repairability, #UseLonger and #Upsycling are inherently better than anything else!
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"We have become so desperate for the all-natural, I realized, that we will pay a premium for its simulacra. And in an effort to appease us by proving the natural, healthy habitats of their hens, egg companies will supplement their feed with things like marigolds, turmeric, and beets to greenwash a perfectly suitable yellow yolk." —Marian Bull for Eater
https://www.eater.com/23819117/orange-egg-yolk-fetish-farm-to-table-locavore-virtue-marketing
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Dispatches from the #Twitter war:
• The bots have won
• Elon has lost
• Now is the time to encourage defection
• No, NOT to BlueSkyI can elaborate:
The Bots have Won
================Back in early 2022, #ElonMusk promised to purchase Twitter and wage war on bots, presumably the ones that were peddling cryptocurrency #scams, romance scams, and all sorts of other scams.
There is a good chance that Elon only said this to try to weasel his way out of purchasing Twitter; basically, if he could claim that the product he was promised didn't resemble what was available in reality, he could undo his promise to purchase the corporation. By claiming Twitter was rife with bots, this was his attempt to do so. But whether it was dishonest or not, Elon stuck to his pledge to try to rid the platform of #bots, in ways that are alternatingly incompetent, silly, and ineffective.
Long story short, Elon never saw his "eliminate all bots" promise through to completion. The ultimate concession to failure was when he changed the Twitter algorithm to favor paying users over regular ones, meaning the best way to be heard on the platform was to give him $8 and say your piece. But that $8 surcharge came at a steep cost: no longer were tweets being amplified based on the content of their quality, but on whether the user had extra money to waste or not.
Initially, maybe this was good for the paying users too. After all, someone with $8 who follows Elon might consider themselves very smart, and those people think they have some very smart things to say. To the average onlooker, though, their "very smart musings" look like complete and utter crap: unfunny jokes, stale memes, cold takes.
It turns out that having money doesn't equal intelligence, and Twitter was providing us evidence at a rapid pace.
Elon has Lost
===========Let's get the obvious things out first: Elon overpaid for Twitter. That much we know. And the value of Twitter has tanked since then, because even the free market won't continue to honor foolish business decisions.
But today, Elon has started limiting the posts that various users are even allowed to see, as low as 300 posts per day for new users, 600 for normal users, and 6000 for the fools who pay $8 to him.
As I understand it, 300 to 600 posts is not a lot. For comparison, when you click Show More in Mastodon, you're probably loading 20 posts at a minimum. Click Show More 30 times, and you've already seen 600. Depending on your usage habits (maybe you just like to skim!) you can easily breeze through these limits in a fraction of an hour.
And that's just not good for user retention. If somebody is locked out of a website after spending a certain amount of time there, I don't think they're going to cough up a couple extra dollars to keep browsing. When the Bezos-owned Washington Post begs me to subscribe to their newspaper, I turn 180° and look for a different source. And the Post actually has valuable information, it's not a cesspit riddled with self-important idiots who pay money to get their unfunny jokes stuck to the top of comment threads.
Now is the Time to Encourage Defection
=================================Imagine you love Elon Musk, you think he can do nothing wrong, and you even join Twitter just to see how much better it can become under his new leadership. And you get hit with a 300 post maximum before the site stops working and/or begs you to cough up your hard-earned cash, to the guy you're pretty sure is already a billionaire.
Isn't it just disheartening?
Here's a more reasonable scenario: You're a Twitter addict. We've all been there, after all. The conversations suck you in, and they're almost always negative conversations too. Twitter drives its engagement based on negative interactions, using #addiction forming patterns that resemble the casino slot machine more than a public square.
Then, one day, whatever #argument you are watching or participating in, suddenly gets replaced with a "insert $8 to continue" screen. It's straight out of a #MontyPython sketch. For the displeasure of raising your stress levels and your blood pressure, you must now spend money.
This is horrible. All of it is absolutely, totally horrible. Anyone who was lulled into complacency by Twitter should now have their way of life shaken to the point of reconsidering why they use the platform. I used to be among them, and I cannot stress how much I regret giving Twitter my time. There are good people on Twitter, but there is no good Twitter to be had.
Stay Away from BlueSky
====================Never choose the lesser of two evils, when there are more than two viable choices. It has been a trend, recently, for large influencers to hope to recreate Twitter, verbatim, somewhere or anywhere else. The November 2022 #TwitterMigration seemed to be equal parts #TwitterRefugee and hapless influencer who was simply looking for the most interaction.
Never mind the complexities of Mastodon, most influencers were disappointed by how it was difficult to reassemble the same audience as they had on Twitter. The network effect was in full swing on Twitter: you joined Twitter because people were there, and people were there because you joined Twitter, so not joining Twitter became simply unfeasible for most people.
Influencers do understand one thing: hero worship. And if you were complacent during earlier Twitter, perhaps the easiest hero to worship is #JackDorsey. He created Twitter, after all. And sure, Twitter itself was always toxic ever since it started encouraging arguments. Maybe a lot of people have succumbed to addiction to Twitter, and have decided that Twitter is now only bad because of Elon Musk, and not because it was always bad.
The people in this mindset are more than happy to follow Jack Dorsey to his next terrible creation, which appears to be BlueSky. Right now, the website is simply a Twitter clone, and it's begging influencers to come to it because soon, it infers, it will be the Twitter for people who aren't quite as extreme as Elon Musk.
I hate to use the term, and I do not use it lightly, but #BlueSky is "virtue signaling" about being #federated. Right now, there is only one BlueSky server, and it is invite only. Something cannot be federated if there's nothing to federate with, especially if it's closed off from the world to begin with.
But do you know why BlueSky is #VirtueSignalling? Quite simply: it has nothing else to offer. Mastodon is, as most foundational level, a federated Twitter clone. BlueSky is, at ITS most foundational level, a Twitter clone with nothing to separate it from Twitter. But being federated is what all the cool kids want, so Jack Dorsey weaseled the word into its description to make people think it might be like Mastodon, if not compatible with it.
Jack Dorsey has always been a fundamentally bad person, a #libertarian #techbro who has no qualms about supporting the far right when it helps him.
Dorsey is friends with #Jan6 promoter, #StopTheSteal believer, and all-around right wing disinfo peddler #AliAlexander, for example. He has always had constant, open dialogues with conservatives who want to accuse him of being too biased against them, and he is often stooped to appease them without questioning whether they were lying to him the entire time.
But don't take my word for it, here is an excellent article about it:
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2021/07/07/we-make-mistakes-twitters-embrace-extreme-far-rightDorsey has also become more obsessed with #cryptocurrency in recent years, with a huge donation to the Twitter-like #Nostr social network, a place where almost all conversations are one-sided cryptocurrency plugs, and sending cryptocurrency over it was one of the defining features.
And Nostr wants to be #PayToWin too, the same way Twitter currently is.
Final thoughts
============Succinctly: Mastodon is good, actually. It has a lot of flaws, it has a lot of user experience issues to work out, but I am incredibly thankful it is not being driven into the ground by venture capitalists hell-bent on extracting as much time, money, and attention out of the average human being as possible.
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[Parody] To Celebrate Pride, We’re Proud to #Color In Our #Logo for a #month
You’re so welcome, #gay #community—it was literally the least we could do.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Business #Humor #Pride #PrideMonth #Tokenism #Corporations #VirtueSignalling
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/to-celebrate-pride-were-proud-to-color-in-our-logo-for-a-month
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As I get older I find I have less and less tolerance for performative inauthentic behaviour, people saying and doing things just to show others how nice and kind they are, without it costing them anything at all.
“Performative behaviour is defined as an action taken specifically with an audience in mind, to elicit a response or reaction. In other words, it’s living for the likes. Only doing things so people notice you're doing them.”
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As I get older I find I have less and less tolerance for performative inauthentic behaviour, people saying and doing things just to show others how nice and kind they are, without it costing them anything at all.
“Performative behaviour is defined as an action taken specifically with an audience in mind, to elicit a response or reaction. In other words, it’s living for the likes. Only doing things so people notice you're doing them.”
