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I was hopping the whole trump thing would show people why separating platforms and protocols are important and would result in widespread adoption of things lik

by swiley 5y ago

I was hopping the whole trump thing would show people why separating platforms and protocols are important and would result in widespread adoption of things like mastodon. Instead we got fucking parlor and people's parents got tricked into publishing photocopies of their state IDs. "Apps" can't die soon enough.

tbrownaw 5y ago
> result in widespread adoption of things like mastodon. Instead of government officials publishing on Twitter or Facebook directly, the feds should have their own Mastodon instance with everyone's work accounts, and that can get federated out to the other platforms. Use their weight to make accepting federated content a clear feature, rather than supporting one specific private platform.
true_religion 5y ago
I’d just want to point out that both Trump and Biden are “people’s parents”. In fact, they are people’s grandparents. Considering we are continually being ruled by septuagenarians, maybe we can adjust our assumptions about what older people are capable of.
- swiley 5y ago
  Regardless of their capabilities they get targeted by this sort of thing pretty aggressively and "App Stores" seem to do little to stop it.
- drewzero1 5y ago
  This is a fair take, but a double-edged one as well. We definitely need to give older folks more credit. At the same time, maybe it isn't the best situation to be ruled primarily by people's grandparents.
  - true_religion 5y ago
    I don’t disagree but at least in the US, the eldest generation is the largest voting block. And they have the perk of having influenced society for 50+ years, laying down an attractive track record of achievements, and most importantly convincing the next largest voting block (their children) to have roughly the same ideals. Although the young skew away from their grandparents ideals, people who are in their 40s and 50s tend to vote similarly.
threatofrain 5y ago
There's no trick unless, like, Parler engaged in business lies with its customers?

by swiley 5y ago

tbrownaw 5y ago

> result in widespread adoption of things like mastodon. Instead of government officials publishing on Twitter or Facebook directly, the feds should have their own Mastodon instance with everyone's work accounts, and that can get federated out to the other platforms. Use their weight to make accepting federated content a clear feature, rather than supporting one specific private platform.

true_religion 5y ago

I’d just want to point out that both Trump and Biden are “people’s parents”. In fact, they are people’s grandparents. Considering we are continually being ruled by septuagenarians, maybe we can adjust our assumptions about what older people are capable of.

swiley 5y ago
Regardless of their capabilities they get targeted by this sort of thing pretty aggressively and "App Stores" seem to do little to stop it.
drewzero1 5y ago
This is a fair take, but a double-edged one as well. We definitely need to give older folks more credit. At the same time, maybe it isn't the best situation to be ruled primarily by people's grandparents.
- true_religion 5y ago
  I don’t disagree but at least in the US, the eldest generation is the largest voting block. And they have the perk of having influenced society for 50+ years, laying down an attractive track record of achievements, and most importantly convincing the next largest voting block (their children) to have roughly the same ideals. Although the young skew away from their grandparents ideals, people who are in their 40s and 50s tend to vote similarly.

threatofrain 5y ago

There's no trick unless, like, Parler engaged in business lies with its customers?