TL;DR: I'm going to leave Meta's social networking platforms (Facebook, Instagram) on June 16th, 2023. This website, byJP.me, will always show good ways to reach me and find out what I'm up to — please say hello if we haven't chatted in a while!
I'm pretty fed up of Facebook and Instagram. I barely use them, but when I do I binge, and end up feeling terrible afterwards. I'm familiar with how sites like these use data analytics to group humans into buckets according to the best ways to maximise dopamine release, and the percent of our day we spent on their sites/apps, and it makes me itch.
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the screenshot of the ceo of #bluesky #blueskysocial saying "we didn't do blocks because they're hard" is a straight-up admission to not being serious about solving the nazi problem. sorry, you <i>can<b>not</b></i> recover from this by ONCE MORE AND YET AGAIN FOR A JACK-DORSEY-RELATED VENTURE, implementing blocks as an afterthought. bluesky is irrecoverably fucked.<br>
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EDIT TO ADD: per https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/110278426748225990<br>
<blockquote> the bit they left out is that the person this was in aid of was Matt Yglesias who had a flock of trans posters tell him to fuck off, then fuck off some more<br>
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they didn't care about [harassment] until it was Matt Y</blockquote>
so I’ve never really been Very Online, and these last few months on Bluesky have been by far the most time I’ve ever spent around shitposting, weird twitter, tpot, whatever it is
can I just say…it’s a …
I can't really parse people defending BlueSky solely because Jack Dorsey is there.
Nor can I defend "it being better" because it explicitly has features that anti-abuse advocates have been saying for years has persistently used as vectors to run attacks against them.
There's people here that do claim publicly to care about people, especially Black people, that have run there, praised it contrary to the above and are prime examples of the false nature of ally ship. Once it's convenient or enough people of their class are ready to jump, they flee frantically.
In a way, good riddance. But also, I'm keeping receipts. I refuse to let people continue to enable abuse and harm for their protection of their social capital.
this is literally the most peaceful form of protest and the Government is seeking to criminalise it because their objection is not to the format that protest takes, it's to the fact that protest happens at all
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⚠️ Slow walking protests cause serious disruption.
New policing powers will ensure hardworking everyday people will no longer be collateral damage to disruptive protests.
ALL protest is disruptive, because it's protest, and that is the point. But *walking slowly* is not violent, or damaging to property, or dangerous. The objection here is that the protest happens at all.
I am really not a fan of all the managers & leaders posting "Oh, it was so hard today because I had to lay people off."
It's 100x harder for the people who got laid off. Yeah you made some decisions and had some conversations. But you aren't the one who suddenly lost their job, who may not be able to make their mortgage or provide for themselves and their family, who is wondering if their career and experience is valid.
Stop with the "woe is me" as a leader. It's a bad look.
BlueSky Terms of Service gives Jack a 'perpetual' & 'irrevocable' license to all your content (posts, name, likeness, pics)
BlueSky can delete your account for any reason, but may refuse to delete it if you ask
You can't screenshot BlueSky
All disputes = individual arbitration
Predictions are fun and social networks seem to be in a period of turbulence, excitement and of course, decline. This is what I reckon it might look like in 6 months: Twitter will be like Facebook:…
What's that you say? Bluesky crossed a few hundred thousand users and immediately started having moderation issues? You don't say! Who could have possibly predicted? etc.
Dear everybody on #Twitter looking at #Bluesky please please come over to the federated social web first, already proven to work for millions of people without millions of $$ in capital. I'll personally help you get set up please reach out.
The irony is many hold him up to be the example of de-transitioning not realizing the only thing he is wanting de-transitioning from is his excessive cosmetic surgery addiction.
One reason I like working at startups is
you get to wear many hats.
Of course,
by "wear many hats" I really mean
"suffer occasional periods of extreme stress when things fail
and there are no grownups you can go to for help".
I like to think of it as Extreme Learning.
I was in one of those interminably dull video-conferences a few weeks ago. The presenter was pitching their grand vision of what our next steps should be.
"So!" They said, "Any comments before we …
Rishi Sunak, "We just launched a campaign in Silicon Valley just talking about our companies and what they are doing.. The campaign is called Unicorn Kingdom."
paying $12/year for a domain so you can do a silly little joke with your username on bsky is way better and funnier than spending $8/month so everyone can watch you gargle musk's balls every time you post
The rings are incidents, the arcs are links to the folks collaborating on it. It's particularly cool seeing some of the the clear London <-> NYC <-> SF teams stand out and the impact of remote work, too. Many incidents involve people from all over.
Joined our @incident_io hackathon yesterday and attempted to visualise incidents happening on our platform around the world, along with their participants — pretty cool! 🌎🚨🔥
Coventry Amazon workers in @GMB_union are on the verge of winning union recognition after recruiting 700 members 💪🏽🚩
This would be the first time Amazon UK has been forced to recognise a union.
Well done to the organisers! Next step: £15 an hour ✊🏽
Society: “autistic people are so rigid and never consider others”.
Autistic me: *habitually sacrifices my wants, needs, preferences and methodologies, and hides a huge and important part of my identity - to the detriment of my own health - to make other people feel comfortable*.