I Tried Two New Upstart Social Networks. I Found ... Very Little.:
There have always been new social media sites hoping to take Facebook's place the way it took Myspace's. Diaspora, launched in 2010, is a nonprofit promising users ownership of the site. Ello, created in 2014, vowed to stay ad-free. Mastodon, which is more similar to Twitter, is an open-source and decentralized platform that has been steadily growing since it came onto the scene in 2016. I have accounts on all three, so when Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales took to Twitter to announce his new social media network WT Social in November of this year, I figured I'd join that too. At first glance, the sign-up was typical for any social platform: submit your name and email to join a waitlist. But I also noticed something else. Whereas Diaspora, Ello, and Mastodon are all currently free, WT Social offers an option to buy a paid membership, of a sort. Wales mentioned in his first Twitter thread about the platform that he was inspired to ditch the typical social media advertising model and move toward a system where some users choose to pay, so WT Social gives users the option of contributing $12.99/month or $100/year. To sweeten the deal, doing so allows new users to skip the sign-up waitlist. I am a cheapskate, though, so I joined for free and received instructions about setting up my account just four days later.
[...] So when I got a cold email from Sachin Monga, co-founder of a chat app called Cocoon, I was intrigued. I don't usually review (or even care, honestly) about new apps, but Cocoon—which bills itself as "a dedicated space for the most important people in your life"—seemed like a viable alternative, and Monga and his co-founder Alex Cornell left Facebook to found it. Though the app, which launched just before Thanksgiving, is currently free, Monga told me it was designed to be a paid subscription. That way, Monga said, there'd be more opportunities to build the right incentives into the apps' design. "There's be no reason to create profiles, serve ads; no reason to get you to spend a lot of time in the app," he said. He cites other paid apps like Headspace or Calm as influences, and says that one common thread among successful paid subscription apps that have done well is that they "measurably make you feel better." I talked with Monga before Wales did his Reddit AMA, and it's striking to me that both creators had similar things to say about how business models incentivize platform design.
[...] The question at the heart of this is how you get people to change their minds and take action together. So many people want to leave Facebook or find an alternative to WhatsApp, but no one wants to be the one to do it first, only to end up alone on the other side. Paying to make the switch might help people feel more invested in actually using their new platforms of choice, in the same way paying for a gym membership theoretically convinces you to work out more often—but few sane people would switch from a free gym to a paid one with fewer amenities. Until either platform can crack the hard nut of mass complacency, I see Facebook continuing to reign supreme.
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Friday December 27 2019, @09:13AM (2 children)
what is the difference between "upstart" and start-up?
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 5, Funny) by inertnet on Friday December 27 2019, @11:56AM
I don't know, could be similar to the difference between "you're up" and "up ....."?
(Score: 5, Interesting) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Friday December 27 2019, @01:56PM
The implications.
Startup implies something starting out of the blue, a real new thing
Upstart implies something starting in an existing environment that is at least a little hostile to the idea.
The first social media was a startup, any post-facegag social media is an upstart competitor.
I take issue though with anything done on a computer being truly social. I see it as more asocial interfacing mediated by hardware, software and networks. Most of what is done on 'social media' works against human social interaction, for every heartfelt message you send, you receive 10,000 junk signals sent from robots who want to trick you into voting against your self-interest. Or worse.
https://jmichaelhudson.net/asocial-media-refugee/ [jmichaelhudson.net]
https://jmichaelhudson.net/important-definitions/ [jmichaelhudson.net]
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 27 2019, @12:12PM (2 children)
I still don't see the point
A replacement for FB would be nice. I now use Discord.
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Friday December 27 2019, @02:12PM (1 child)
discord is the police. the app will comprimise anything it is installed on.
you will notice it hyped heavily on police owned platforms like steemit, and police like 'the conscious resistance' use it incessantly to get their message out.
the answer is not a closed source app. full stop.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 28 2019, @11:32AM
Well, it works for me today.
I only use it to chat.
(Score: 2, Flamebait) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Friday December 27 2019, @03:10PM (18 children)
facegag now seems like a product that was released without meeting any of its design requirements except that it would be easier for propagandists to beam lies directly in the faces of rubes.
I have said before its creators and operators should be arrested, it was and is a conspiracy, it is espionage in the legal sense, and it is treachery in the real sense. Facegag is attacking the united states, just like the #president is.
I am trying to think of a comparable design failure and I can't, the failure of this is so astroundingly vast, across so many levels.
When I think about the fb problem I feel like wallE dealing with the trash of the abandoned earth, the entire buildings of compressed garbage that the internet has become. All linked to each other with meaningless links, bots tracking bots for use by bots to influence other bots, and all to convince managers that something happened when it is just noise between automotons shouting from their own distant chinese or russian or hebrew rooms. Then every once in a while a poor wal mart worker in kentucky gets tricked into believing that trump is blameless and the paradigm of modern christianity, and zuckerborg pockets another 300% mark up for the event. Which is worth it to the oligarchs who paid for it because their entire industry probably exists now due to fiat, and their entire currency is based upon the blind faith of that wal mart worker as well.
Facebork's anti-ecosystem is now like the termites holding hands that keep the crumbling fake market of the petrodollar from the dustbin of history, the ultimate endgame last ditch defense of a rent-seeking system. Brain fungi nanotubes of data that convince slave drones to keep working even though they are no longer being rewarded and to help distract them from the people who don't work yet still manage to break things and hurt people(or fly around on planes and rape them)
Where can we offer this wal mart worker an alternative? Someone with a limited intellect, limited knowledge, limited 'savvy', where can we suggest they go where we are not just feeding their intellect to scary, hidden manipulators who want to enslave them or worse?
There was a time this was the job of judges, lawyers, representatives, police, academics, league of women voters, to protect the public, to perform the public service of explaining complex choices to people so there wasn't some mania, like seeing a comet and thinking the world is ending. (see how far we have not come?)
Now the job of these people seems to be, at least the ones who get to go on tv and talk, or who are allowed to exist as intelletuals at all, is to do the opposite, help the propagandists convince the kentucky wal mart worker that mitch mcconnel is their hero when he is the strongest force for their enslavement there has ever been.
So yes going up againset this and eric brooks of ethos capital is no easy task for an individual, but their work has been to prevent organizing for the last 20 years, while they organize themselves very neatly. This is one of the reasons I am writing here, I know I cannot my own self lock myself away and craft this solution, but I am someone who has been philosophically working on this problem since I became aware it was headed our way in 2001.
And like I have said in many contexts here, the tech we are making comes from organizations. These organizations have types and characteristics, and you will not get the software with the design requirements of 'freedom' from organizations and individuals that are themselves tyrannical, opaque and obsesesed with financial gain. To watch things like 'project veritas' and the cia-affiliated 'fact checking'(sic) orgs try to do this, and of course the beloved ethos capital(notice how the corrupt love to fall back on latin lingo to sound offiical and erudite and credible...but it backfires and sounds scarily gothic and brutally roman), is comical if it were not so detrimental to the existence of truth, reason, justice and anything else worthwhile in the human experience, and for functioning human society.
proof in memes:
https://archive.is/iOckl [archive.is]
https://archive.is/ZinJT [archive.is]
https://archive.is/HTALt [archive.is]
https://archive.is/OPkTH [archive.is]
https://archive.is/TmRS6 [archive.is]
(Score: 5, Insightful) by barbara hudson on Friday December 27 2019, @03:44PM (13 children)
Can you be any more of a patronizing elitist piece of shit?
At least they work for a living. You don't. I'm sure they have goals, like feeding their families and keeping a roof over their heads, and if Walmart is the only job available , they take it. Doesn't make them "limited intellect, limited knowledge, limited savvy." Just limited choices in a tough economic time.
Judging people based solely on their job is elitist, classist, and full libtard libertarian. Go jerk off to Ayn Rand, because reading "Atlas Shrugged" is as close as you'll ever get to your fantasy of having people pay you via Patreon for posting your opinions on the Internet.
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by lonehighway on Friday December 27 2019, @03:59PM (4 children)
*whoosh*
Learn the word meta and look at the bigger picture. He wasn’t being patronizing, he was giving an example of the kind of people most targeted for manipulation.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Friday December 27 2019, @04:54PM (3 children)
I don't see a single meta tag. Not in the article, nor in his post. I quoted what he wrote word for word. If all that's a problem for you, then feel free to consider my reply as META as well.
Was anything I wrote inaccurate? Hasn't he refused jobs (he even said so the one time I read his journal) so he can try to set himself up as some sort of Internet guru or something? Is his statement that I quoted even accurate? Seems to me "the average Walmart worker" covers a wide range of people, and to slag them as being less intelligent simply isn't justified by the evidence.
EVERYONE is open to being manipulated. Not just Walmart workers. He says they're less savvy. But based on the evidence, they're more savvy than he is. They at least have a job; how much has he made in donations and gifts from his self-promotion as a net ponyificator?
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 1) by lonehighway on Friday December 27 2019, @05:19PM (2 children)
Your rant has nothing to do with what he was talking about, and you still don’t understand what meta means, as in meta-analysis. Obviously Wal-Mart is some kind of trigger for you personally.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Friday December 27 2019, @05:26PM (1 child)
Why would he write it if it had nothing to do with what he wrote?
The quote helps put everything he writes into context. It shows he's a poseur.
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Friday December 27 2019, @06:13PM
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Friday December 27 2019, @04:09PM (5 children)
I told you to leave me alone. This is harassment now, please stop. Try to 'Be best.'
At least here I can wear onions around my neck.
https://archive.is/UNdBi [archive.is]
https://archive.ph/EdHYz [archive.ph]
https://archive.is/iOckl [archive.is]
https://archive.is/FMvgZ [archive.is]
https://archive.is/9AP2G [archive.is]
https://archive.is/Hy6ZJ [archive.is]
https://archive.is/kd65L [archive.is]
https://archive.is/OPkTH [archive.is]
https://archive.is/ET5w1 [archive.is]
https://archive.is/prt0J [archive.is]
https://archive.is/QBVQJ [archive.is]
https://archive.is/ZinJT [archive.is]
(Score: 2, Touché) by barbara hudson on Friday December 27 2019, @05:17PM (4 children)
You have some nerve. I read one of your journal posts, pointed out how ridiculous it was, you got all pissy. So you decide to downmod my posts AND brag about it, as "punishment ". You make me laugh.'
Then you go and shitpost in my journal, more downmods (all quickly undone) while telling me to leave you alone.
I haven't bothered with your other journal entries, because one was enough.
But you go around slagging people who, as I pointed out, are not what you say in your childish one-dimensional condescending view of them, and I'm not allowed to point out your utter hypocrisy?
They have a job , you don't. Someone values their work enough to pay for it. How much have you gotten in donations o be some sort of Internet pundit?
You say that they're easily manipulated. And yet your aspiration is to be one of the manipulators, getting paid to influence people as an Internet pundit. But too bad, so sad, it's not happening because you can't relate to people (if you could, you would not have written what I quoted from you).
It's not about you - I would have taken exception to anyone writing the same thing. However, in your case there's so many valid criticisms that are intertwined with what you wrote that it's only just and fair to provide readers more context.
And you really need to lay off with trying to boost the search rank of links by spamming half a dozen at a time. Nobody here is stupid - we know why you're doing it.
Or you can produce proof that what I quoted you as saying is either (a) not what you wrote, or (b) actually true. You know, put up or shut up. And no, speaking up for others is not harassment, snowflake.
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 27 2019, @08:37PM (1 child)
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Saturday December 28 2019, @12:23AM
A fair point. It just gets my goat that people will go around belittling workers for Megacorps like Walmart and Amazon. The employees get way more than enough of that from their bosses - we don't need to put our boots on their necks to make us feel *special* or superior.
And as I've said before - it's not about him. I would criticize anyone who portrayed victims of the hollowing out of manufacturing as "less intelligent, less savvy", etc. But his motivation for posting isn't to further the discussion. He's admitted in this discussion that he includes link spam in his posts. It's part of his effort to make a living from donations as an internet pundit - which he admitted was his life plan in his only journal that I read.
He's too stupid to realize that it's not 1995 any more; search engines recognize link spam and act accordingly. But what can you expect from a wannabe "influencer" who thinks that victims of economic dislocation are less intelligent?
That's the meta message, in context.
Plus I've always hated spammers.
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Saturday December 28 2019, @02:34PM (1 child)
I don't read anything you write anymore, you are just making your true nature more transparent.
I want nothing to do with you and find what you 'write' totally worthless in every way.
Stop harassing me. Third direct request.
https://archive.is/IZsOB [archive.is]
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Sunday December 29 2019, @12:25AM
If you don't read anything I write any more, than why would you have any problem with anything I write?
Yet another logic fail.
Look - you want to be a paid internet critic, but you can't handle any criticism.
Again, I'm going to be direct - either show that I misquoted you when you said this up-thread:
or provide evidence that wal mart workers (and the workers of other megacorps) are of limited intellect, limited knowledge, and limited savvy.
You can cry harassment all you want, but critics need to have a thick skin. You can cry harassment all you want. but the point remains - you denigrated millions of people with no justification.
During recessions we have people with masters and doctorates driving taxis to make ends meet. Were they of low intellect, low knowledge, little savvy? No, they were victims of greed by those higher up the food chain who caused bubbles that blew up.
Same thing happened to plenty of aerospace engineers laid off following the second shuttle disaster. Were they low intellect, low knowledge, little savvy? Were they deserving to lose their jobs because they "made bad choices"?
The Boeing workers currently being laid off - are they low intellect, low knowledge, little savvy if they end up working a low-paying job to make ends meet?
The graduates with their degrees who thought they would be like their parents, work at low paying jobs for a few months while waiting for their career to start, and who are finding that it doesn't work that way any more because of the increasing concentration of power end economic clout have destroyed many jobs, are they low intellect, low knowledge, little savvy?
You made a statement, and the only thing I'm asking is that you take responsibility for it. Back it up.
If you can't back up what you say now, can't take legitimate criticism of your statements, and try to deflect by claiming you're being harassed (oh the irony - you're the same guy who boasted about abusing the mod point system to "punish me") before you become a paid internet critic and pundit, you certainly don't have what it takes.
It's not about you - it's about what you wrote. You totally ignore today's economic realities, you feed into the same stereotypes and tropes that promote class hatred, and you somehow think that you're immune from any criticism.
That you don't have a job because you're hoping people will donate money so you can be an internet critic, while criticizing those who are willing to take any job to make ends meet, just increases the irony quotient.
Don't want to be "harassed"? Don't post lies about the character and nature of millions of people. You're victim blaming. The economic displacements to which they are the victims aren't their fault. All you're doing is putting the boots to them. They get enough of that from their bosses. You should be ashamed.
And no, I've never worked for Walmart or Amazon or Google, so this isn't personal, it's strictly about what's right and wrong.
Why are you afraid of answering the question? After all, you brought it up?
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 27 2019, @07:29PM (1 child)
At least most Walmart workers aren't certifiably nuts.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Saturday December 28 2019, @12:50AM
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Friday December 27 2019, @04:01PM (3 children)
The meta meta meta of the other response is nice on so many levels if you are into that kind of thing. Dishonesty can reveal so many truths.
I forgot to add this meme I crafted (2 days ago...) specifically for this very question:
https://archive.is/rWnr8 [archive.is]
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by barbara hudson on Friday December 27 2019, @06:19PM (2 children)
Thank you for admitting that you use SoylentNews to boost the search rankings of links to stuff you write.
Not that anyone didn't suspect as much, but at least now it's out in the open that you're link-spamming.
Interesting fact: your technique won't work. I worked for 3 years writing code for a search engine business, and what you're doing ultimately results in your links being downrated in general results. I could tell you what you're doing wrong, and how to fix it to get around the filters, but I'm not that mean (to the rest of the users on the internet)
Stupid spammer is stupid spammer.
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 27 2019, @10:22PM (1 child)
Why would anyone click on random "archive.is" links?
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Saturday December 28 2019, @12:42AM
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Friday December 27 2019, @03:25PM
same price more fun
Account abandoned.
(Score: 2) by progo on Friday December 27 2019, @04:27PM
Facebook's host control and utter lack of control given to users made me sad and angry, so I terminated my account there. Instagram won't let me post from a browser, last time I checked. I never understood Twitter for any purpose other than bitching at vendors and passively viewing "why are no trains showing up in my station?"
I joined a "fediverse" node on a Mastodon server owned by a community I already participated in, and it's exactly what I wanted. (Except for the bad built-in UI.) It is good.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Friday December 27 2019, @05:18PM (3 children)
The two best quotes about the article
And, same paragraph...
So the author wasn't willing to contribute (there-then), but wanted others to show they were interested.
Overall it read more like, "yeah, I'll try these out.... without any defined objectives of what I'm looking for in social networking." No goal = no way to know if one is at goal = inability to grade success.
This sig for rent.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by barbara hudson on Friday December 27 2019, @06:28PM (2 children)
Dating sites get around this by creating tons of fake women's profiles. Social networks could do the same by copying posts from other sites ... and reposting replies (sort of like a gateway) until they build up a critical mass, but ...
Or bots, like the dating sites. Lots and lotsa bots.
Or do it on the cheap using Amazon's Mechanical Turk, same as Amazon vendors use it to post fake product reviews.
Or pay users. Or a large donation to several charities (and users get to rank-vote charities) if certain goals are met. People wouldn't object to a few plain text-only ads that aren't from an ad network, don't track them, and don't look by their content like they're creepily stalking them and eavesdropping on their mail, email, phone calls, messages, etc. So no javascript or css.
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday December 30 2019, @01:43PM (1 child)
If one is looking for a social community to be part of, sure. I'm on social media for one primary reason: out of town family members I wouldn't otherwise be able to catch up with. Since I'm stuck where I am because of that there are other things I do there also. But keeping in touch with family is my prime goal and the only thing that keeps me connected there. If I could move my family onto Diaspora or Mastodon I would, and if my family stopped using what they're using I'd leave. But I can't, so I stay where I am. At any rate, paying members / bots / "because it's cool / because you gotta / cause everyone else does" aren't my reasons. And because the author never states what she is looking for there is not an easy way to know what would satisfy her. I suspect it's some variation of to be kept entertained on the schedule she wants the entertainment on. But she never says so, instead starting from the apparent assumption that one must be on social media.
This sig for rent.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by barbara hudson on Monday December 30 2019, @02:08PM
I've gone back to making phone calls. Sometimes the old ways are better.
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 27 2019, @06:48PM
"i'm a dumb ass slave so i tried two *products* that have barely come out and am surprised that other dumb asses aren't using them to spew their ignorant bile yet."
(Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Friday December 27 2019, @10:37PM
I looked into signing up several years ago, when word of it first started trickling out, but at the time at least they had closed the platform to any new users that were not invited by a current user. I don't know how long they kept that policy, and I can understand what concerns they had about being flooded with bots and trolls, but their choice of method was to gradually strangle their own platform.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 28 2019, @12:48AM (12 children)
This is part of the reason many came here to start with. Please don't trash this site with censorship. Mod the post down to -1. That is enough. Unless it's illegal; then I guess for the sake of keeping a low profile it's OK.
So....
Are the Hudsons related in any way?
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Saturday December 28 2019, @12:55AM (7 children)
So....
Maybe he's my ex ... :-)
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Saturday December 28 2019, @01:19AM (2 children)
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 28 2019, @02:44AM (1 child)
And do want him not to? Let the person be. Why pick on him. Correct or answer his post but you seem to be picking on him a lot. For me to note the ID's of post is not the norm. But with you two I started noting it. Anyway. Thanks for the being here.
The AC idiot.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Saturday December 28 2019, @02:47PM
It's not about him. If he had not wellritten the garbage about workers in certain jobs being less intelligent, less savvy, etc., I would have ignored the post because the rest of it was his usual conspiracy theories garbage. The sort of stuff that isn't worth giving a second glance, never mind a reply.
But we have a huge problem with high quality jobs being lost, and people having to work several part time jobs to make ends meet because companies like Walmart don't want to pay the benefits associated with working 25 hours or more. What that means is stat many Walmart workers end up on food stamps (as do those who work full time as the bottom of the wage scale). So the taxpayers are subsidizing one of the richest companies in the world.
The employees caught in this trap aren't necessarily stupid or whatever - the Walmart effect of killing off local jobs is well documented. So much so that some communities have refused to let them build.
Walmart has always cost more jobs than it creates. And not just among retail workers. Walmart imports 1/7 of all the trade with China. That's a lot of domestic manufacturing jobs that have been exported. With it there's also a lowering of competition, because while the small retailers and chains would order from local suppliers, who each had various product lines, many made locally, Walmart killed them off and consolidated both the products and manufacturing to China, so that the result is you have less of a product choice, and it's all made in China, because the local manufacturing sector died.
I noticed this when I tried to buy a replacement tennis racquet a couple of decades ago. None of the stores had anything that wasn't made in China. So I didn't buy. The brand names might have been the same, but the quality wasn't.
This isn't the fault of Walmart workers. They're caught in the middle of the largest increase in economic disparities in history. So someone who wants to be a paid internet pundit and "influencer" better sharpen his pencil and show more awareness of what's really going on with the workers he was so dismissive towards, especially if he is both complaining that they are easily manipulated and that he wants to be in a position to manipulate them.
And seriously, his link spamming is so '90s that it needs to be called out. Nobody likes spammers. So what did he expect- that nobody would say anything? Or that nobody would point out the contradictions between his view of workers in lower income jobs, whom he disparaged, and his refusal to get a job (as per his statements on his web site) so he can eventually get donations to write full time?
If he's been studying this for 20 years and this is all he has to offer, it's mighty thin gruel. If he can't accept valid criticism (he has yet to offer ANY proof that Walmart workers are like how he characterizes them) then he's going to be disappointed that, if his views ever get more widely spread, people aren't just going to give him a pass on such stuff.
Here's a thought- if either of you think his views of Walmart (and by extension, Amazon and other megacorp low-wage workers) are valid, post this thread all over the net. Let the people decide who is wrong. I have no problem with that, or any ensuing criticism that may be directed towards me. He wants to be an "influencer" - here's a hot topic just begging for wider discussion/exposure.
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 28 2019, @11:20AM (3 children)
Given that you are reportedly trans, I thought it might have been "before" and "after".
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Saturday December 28 2019, @03:12PM (2 children)
And at the very top of the page
In other words, unemployed.
It's kind of sad. The guy wants to be a pundit, criticizing the world, but whines about "harassment " as soon as he's criticized for something he wrote. Obviously he's not cut out for the job he aspires to. But it is what it is ...
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 28 2019, @08:07PM (1 child)
You two seem very different. I was trying for funny. I guess I failed. :(
Have a Happy New Year. :)
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Saturday December 28 2019, @11:35PM
Au contraire, you may have created a new meme. And we can all use a laugh. Relax, it's funny.
Besides, it's hard to take him at all seriously. His openly posting that he was "punishing" me by down-modding me multiple times was the sort of "hold my beer" moment you can't make up. Boasting that he was abusing the mod system ... priceless AND clueless.
Sure made me laugh ...
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday December 28 2019, @01:29AM (3 children)
What are you talking about?
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 28 2019, @02:38AM (2 children)
Had a Anon post deleted/lost a bit back in the thread.
It was Offtopic asking if B. Hudson and M. Hudson are related. They are always fighting on here. Like X's or Brother/Sister.
Please tell me it was a lost post. I like this site and would not want to find another. Not that it's possible to find a site now days that won't censor post. And my AC post was very simple and no bad words or insults.
Oh and thanks for all the work. On day I'll give money when I get back on my feet.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday December 28 2019, @03:07AM (1 child)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 28 2019, @03:33AM
Sorry.
I guess It's just me an "AC Idiot!"
No excuses; I messed up. I should login that way I wont loose my post. :-)
Thanks Takyon...
Also thanks B.Hudson for the clarification...
(Score: 2) by zeigerpuppy on Saturday December 28 2019, @05:20AM
I have been trying out Mastodon on my own server.
It's quite good and usable and the federation model is privacy/data ownership respecting.
I think it'll be a slow burn but has a good chance of improving social networking.
I highly recommended giving it a go if you're looking for a Twitter alternative.