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Not sure how anyone running around swearing at people is going to accomplish a damn thing. In fact it probably siphons off the energy from a movement that need
by moneytalks 10y ago
Not sure how anyone running around swearing at people is going to accomplish a damn thing.
In fact it probably siphons off the energy from a movement that needs to learn not to create value in an institution driven by profit instead of societal betterment.
The proposal also suffers from the delusion of many who believe tweeting is equivalent to actually working to make the world a better place. Tweeting is more like self-congratulatory marketing that has the addictive property of also assuaging one's guilt for treating others poorly in real life.
- cabalamat 10y ago> In fact it probably siphons off the energy from a movement that needs to learn not to create value in an institution driven by profit instead of societal betterment. Indeed. Creating a twitter-like platform is not particularly difficult, and it is therefore feasible for group of people to chose to build one with a structure involving a degree of user control, and see if it flies.
- joshkpeterson 10y agoNah. Don't kid yourself. It may be "not particularly difficult" to write the code, but Twitter is way more than code. It's a cultural entity built with the labor of millions of people. You have to be exceptionally lucky to do something like Twitter and it's not something everyone can do.