Notices by william.maggos (wjmaggos@liberal.city)

#bluesky is telling their history without mentioning that #ActivityPub and #mastodon already existed. saying they wanted to open up social media. pathetic.

https://www.twitch.tv/blueskysocial

@dcc @nam

@nam

clearly all the racists on NAS SPC and poast etc are Russian bots.

@threalist

that's the nice thing about conspiracies. when they seem to fall apart, you can always just make up another one.

#Trump is still very proud of his rollout of the mRNA vaccines, while his supporters still hate it. If his supporters were half as committed to standing on principle as pro life and many Palestinian supporters are, half of Trump's expected votes would disappear. #uspol

@dcc @Diceyocean @truthbait

your post was not very clear but I think I responded to it. we are going to disagree on what we want in that mix and struggle to get it against those with more money when capitalism gives those more power in the democracy.

we must keep increasing the critical thinking of the public, the information flow and the responsiveness of the electoral system. shit does get better. the alternative is weak govt and assholes dominate, or you get a dictator.

@truthbait @anemone @dcc @Diceyocean

so you think wealth doesn't naturally concentrate, monopolies aren't inevitable and the ability to buy influence in the media won't bias who becomes our representatives? I do. add to this representatives getting paid off indirectly or afterwards.

and when this happens, a fully free market system that already leaves a lot of "losers" to suffer and die, leaves out more. and they organize to change the system. the cost to control them makes things worse etc.

@dcc @Diceyocean @truthbait

I do not want to end capitalism but the incentives it plays into can eat away at society. same with socialism. we will never have either fully, and would hate it if we did. the best is a mixed economy with a strong democracy which we have to keep getting better at but also won't agree about cause it will affect everyone differently.

@Diceyocean @dcc @truthbait

no conspiracy is necessary. one might say the conspiracy mindset is a good distraction and way to keep people divided.

it's capitalism. the drive for profit leads corporations to manipulate politicians to use govts to serve their interests at home and abroad. the US is only the most obvious example because it has the most powerful military and provides voters with the least ability to make govt serve the public over the interests of donors.

increase people power.

In general, on foreign policy, MAGA Republicans want to be isolationist. Establishment Dems want to dominate the world while saying everything we're doing is in everybody's best interest. The left wants to work through the UN, letting the world community truly make the decisions and doing whatever they require of us. Or at least that's my reading of it. #uspol

@truthbait

I don't think I said that. Ultimately everything is going to come down to agreements of "you do this, we'll do that". hopefully before violence starts, but afterwards if peace can't be sustained.

I'm a lefty. We affect each other and we are always going to be self interested and somewhat blind to other's concerns. The first two options are not sustainable long-term. Problems fester. We have interests that voters won't let us ignore. Better to always be negotiating and deal fairly.

@truthbait

but somehow most of the people who call themselves Muslim already don't spend all their time murdering tho. I guess I will talk to them.

@Hyolobrika @ryan @tisha @silverpill

wouldn't some standards and norms about making account transfers work better fix this? doesn't nostr lack moderation generally?

@tisha @Hyolobrika @ryan

but even after using diff email servers for decades, most struggle to understand what we are doing here or why. ours is the simplest ask and maybe the furthest we'll get most people to go. it has to be decentralized to diff servers to accomplish the basics so why not also use that to handle moderation? having people run their own servers is great but most won't do that. threads wants to be gmail. hopefully most use locality based servers for their personal accounts.

Stop saying the problem is social media. It's algos that serve profit over users (especially kids) and the public interest. The fedi lets people find community beyond their local network and it lets us build a media infrastructure outside of corporate ownership and the demands of advertisers. #SocialWeb
https://pca.st/episode/91904dc8-d882-44c5-944a-69e665b90f96

@dcc @FranciscoScaramanga @nam

logically it had to be Jesus or his dad but they are the same person etc.

@dcc @FranciscoScaramanga @nam

you're changing the subject. people always say things they don't actually believe are true in order to be part of a community. woke is a new religion. I reject all of them.

but to answer your reply, people always use the supernatural to explain things we haven't figured out yet. the sun was Apollo's chariot etc.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps

@FranciscoScaramanga @nam

now do Christianity!

I don't get how someone could serve as president from jail but it might be kinda cool to see. #Trump

@nam

do you think 2020 was stolen? cause if not, I don't get how you could say this. everything else I get somebody supporting either candidate.