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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jan-2023 21:02:06 JST Aral Balkan

   Twitter is a microphone connected to a mixer owned and controlled by Elon Musk.

   If you understand how microphones and mixers work, you also understand why you can’t “stay and fight.”

   #twitter #fediverse #twitterMigration #algorithmicTimelines #BigTech #socialMedia #SiliconValley #capitalism #ElonMusk #billionaires #fascism

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jan-2023 21:47:58 JST Aral Balkan

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     • PJ Coffey

     @Homebrewandhacking It’s simple: you plug a microphone into a mixer and the person who controls the mixer sets the volume of your microphone (or mutes it entirely).

   • PJ Coffey (homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jan-2023 21:47:59 JST PJ Coffey

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     @aral

     I do not understand how mics and mixers work. I do understand how earnest young people think.

     I do understand that by providing content for him, I would be enabling him.

     Most of his base are there to "own the libs" and they think they're winning whenever they get any response, no matter how stupid they look because they don't care about truth.

     And people staying there to "support" others? Just providing an audience. Disengage or just admit you're there for the conflict.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jan-2023 21:50:22 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Will Palmer

     @wpalmer Exactly.

   • Will Palmer (wpalmer@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jan-2023 21:50:23 JST Will Palmer

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     @aral the problem is not merely the type of space that Twitter happens to create, it's the structure which allows such spaces to be created. Even if Elon Musk's views, policies, and capacity, lined up exactly with what I wanted, then Twitter is a space which is intrinsically and intentionally built to allow the desires of specific stakeholders to be enacted. We should always be wary of systems which rely on those stakeholders being good actors.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jan-2023 03:58:23 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Herr Rembremerdeng

     @rembremerdeng But you’re not part of the band. You’re sitting in the nosebleeds hoping to catch a glimpse of yourself in the Jumbotron.

     (Not you personally; just addressing your analogy) :)

   • Herr Rembremerdeng (rembremerdeng@home.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jan-2023 03:58:24 JST Herr Rembremerdeng

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     @aral
     I agree, it's a good comparison. But there are millions of mics on this mixer. And the reason a lot of people stay is not only to fight. It's because they want to hear what the others are singing and if the man at the mixer is going completely nuts. That's how I do it. It's not easy being kicked out of such a huge band.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jan-2023 04:02:01 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Tim Ellis (he/him) DJDynamicNC

     @DJDynamicNC 💕

   • Tim Ellis (he/him) DJDynamicNC (djdynamicnc@mstdn.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jan-2023 04:02:02 JST Tim Ellis (he/him) DJDynamicNC

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     @aral This is a good analogy, thank you for sharing!

   • Catweazle (catweazle@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jan-2023 04:22:09 JST Catweazle

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     @aral , Twitter still exist?

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jan-2023 04:22:09 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     • Catweazle

     @Catweazle Reportedly.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jan-2023 23:56:11 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Allan Chow

     @grumpasaurus 👌

   • Allan Chow (grumpasaurus@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jan-2023 23:56:12 JST Allan Chow

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     @aral