Facebook going down meant more than just a social network being unavailable

Re:Facebook going down meant more than just a social network... by inglor_cz on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @02:25AM (#28756091)

Too much transparency. If thousands of eyes of gatekeepers are at you at all times, and immediately start screaming that you are a DINO or a RINO if you do not hold the party line at all times, you have all the incentives to be strictly partisan.

We generally consider transparency in politics a good thing, especially because it may reduce corruption. But it comes with significant downsides. Only very resilient personalities are able to ignore the psychopathic monkey cesspool that is the political Twitter. The rest will submit to Moloch.

(Scott Alexander's "Meditations on Moloch" are a good read; I was lucky enough to meet the author two days ago at a meetup in Prague.)

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Re:Facebook going down meant more than just a social network... by GoblinSlayer on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @07:34AM (#28757995)

>Only very resilient personalities are able to ignore the psychopathic monkey cesspool that is the political Twitter.

Then don't visit twitter and post on an obscure nntp newsgroup instead.

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Re:Facebook going down meant more than just a social network... by inglor_cz on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @07:52AM (#28758131)

I am talking about career politicians here, who usually use social networks to keep in touch with their electorate. Though they often have staff to do the lowly comment/response work.

Maybe it is a bad idea and a NNTP newsgroup would be better. Should be tried.

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Re:Facebook going down meant more than just a social network... by Radim on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @03:38AM (#28756491)

Oh. What meetup, what did I miss?

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Re:Facebook going down meant more than just a social network... by inglor_cz on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @04:06AM (#28756639)

Prague-Karlín, Sunday Oct the 3rd.

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