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polotek

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Web developer, movie buff, and pretty much the best guy you know. Married to
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polotek , to random
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I keep having a specific kind of exchange about this mastodon/bluesky thing. It goes something like this.

Me: I have a bunch of concerns around what actions people are taking if they care about their privacy on here. Yelling at one guy is not sufficient.

Them: Of course he's wrong! You must be saying you don't care about privacy at all!

It's pretty frustrating.

polotek OP ,
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I've been on the internet for a long time. This isn't a new thing. People won't have any other conversation with you until you first agree that they are 100% morally right. Anything else is a distraction. And if you aren't immediately on their side, then you must be on the other side. There can only be 2 sides. The good one and the bad one.

It's pretty exhausting. But more importantly, it keeps us from getting smarter about what we're doing to DO about any of this.

polotek OP ,
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You need to understand and accept that it takes work and money to provide you a social media experience. Getting away from centralized profit-driven systems also means you probably need to think about who is paying for your experience and who is doing labor to maintain it. It might need to be you.

I pay $11/mo for my own single-person mastodon instance. It doesn't take a lot of technical know-how. But it probably still feels daunting to most people. I don't know how to help with that today.

polotek , to random
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Somehow found myself arguing with someone who talks about "the fediverse" like it is a) a singular thing and b) a separate thing from bluesky. It helped remind me of a fundamental truth about talking to people who are mad on the internet. What they're mad about is entirely uncorrelated with how well they understand the issues. Anger is an emotion. So is fear.

chgowiz ,
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@polotek Sometimes I wonder if the anger is correlated with the emotions that result from ignorance and knowing one isn't up to speed on the thing. It's frustrating and scary to feel out of control or not understand something... and anger is an easy step from that frustration. Just a thought...?

polotek , to random
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If you haven't checked in a while, Firefox is good. Like really good. If you're tired of Chrome taking literally all of your ram and CPU, you should try switching.

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