On Mastodon tonight:

[applegrove]

I would like to see Mastodon utilized to fight fascism in the same way that twitter has been used. We are in an existential crisis where the wealthy, the white nationalists, and the christo fascists are trying to control what our children learn in school, what we read in the paper, and now, even more increasingly, what we see on social media, and this is something that we HAVE to push back against.



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[usonian]

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[applegrove]

2. It takes me a while to get into a routine. Thanks.

[usonian]

3. I have thought about this social media issue.

If I propose a tech solution, I realize that I would at best just counter the horrific damage that tech has done in the hands of sociopathic megalomaniacs. Break-even for all my effort (and I'm outside the usual entrepreneur profile.)

I was kind of hoping that Apple (or other) would just come up with something, but since Cook and Musk had a little walk-about at the Apple spaceship campus, Apple has resumed advertising on twitter, and calmed the inflamed one.

Positive signs from Apple are that they are soon really encrypting backups, photos and more (they won't have a key to them).

They also seem to be backing off their automotive efforts.

Well, I don't walk the corridors (or landscaped pathways) of power.

One of the reasons that Mastodon works with limited resources is that none of it goes into advertising and the "surveillance" technology to support it, which is gigantic.

A small alternative or alternatives might work, but people are still way impressed by fame and notoriety. (ie. numbers) Some is deserved. Of course, any system that replaces quantity with quality is golden in my books. Not seeing it just yet.

Since advertising invaded the internet, it's entirely about quantity over quality.

P.S. many entrepreneurs are really sociopathic right-wingers. Something about the desire for a very quick buck overwhelms the compassionate qualities. However, note that very many very large companies started small. Most don't have the patience.

[applegrove]

4. It is what is taught in business school that is sociopathic in many ways.

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Gone are the days when your competitors are another business in the same market as you: competitors to be destroyed is that, and your customers, employees, government. It is all out war. The Economist did a story on that. I think it was the early 1990s when the change happened. Maybe earlier than that for some MBA schools.

[usonian]

5. Creative Destruction?

David Loy writes about how toxic this is. Won't expand here. I like his writing in general. But what the heck, I read Gene Schumacher "Small is Beautiful ", Lewis Mumford and others.

[applegrove]

6. That too was taught.