Re:My personal wishlist for a decentralized social network
by busrf on Monday January 11, 2021 @11:34PM
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The saga of bean dad is here:
https://mobile.twitter.com/ManiacalV/status/1345870405085573...
The bean dad attention led people to discover these additional tweets which are much worse than his questionable parenting judgement in that particular thread, and that’s what drove people to stop associating with him:
https://www.thewrap.com/bean-dad-deletes-twitter-account-ant...
TBH when I first saw that he got chased off twitter for the other tweets I did think it was going to be some cringe “edgy” humour attempt à la James Gunn. But that “white homeland” and “mud people” tweet is overt and not acceptable racism.
Re:My personal wishlist for a decentralized social network
by chillacy on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @03:39PM
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Wow that’s some pretty important context. The parent comment is extremely misleading for leaving this out.
Re:My personal wishlist for a decentralized social network
by whatshisface on Monday January 11, 2021 @04:52PM
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Well, there's bad actors, and then there's twitter-assigned villains. Really bad actors, as in people who are doing things that are clearly bad enough for there to be laws against them, need to be controlled somehow. That's what most moderation energy goes in to preventing.
Re:My personal wishlist for a decentralized social network
by acatsdream on Monday January 11, 2021 @10:54PM
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That's mobbing
Just the last week a musician tweeted something dumb about making his daughter learn how to use a can opener to open beans, and within a day, the very successful podcast he did the theme song for, where his track was used for the past like 10 years disowned him and stopped using the song. Then he was kicked off the cruise gathering where he was good friends with the guy who ran it and has been a regular headliner for years.
The internet has created a culture problem that I'm not convinced decentralized social networks will fix. At best, if one was created that people actually used, we wouldn't have situations we've seen with Alex Jones and Trump where all the platforms unperson someone on the same day, cause they could still at least keep their audience on the decentralized platform.