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And then went straight over to X, another social media silo, to post that his other social media account at the other silo was banned. What a world we live in.
by VWWHFSfQ 1y ago
And then went straight over to X, another social media silo, to post that his other social media account at the other silo was banned.
What a world we live in.
- petcat 1y agoMegacorp turf wars. It's silos all the way down.
- jasonvorhe 1y agoThere's always nostr.
- echelon 1y agoThat's designed for nerds. Like Matrix and the other platforms that will never see mainstream adoption because they lack product management and crazy distribution. Normie design and hyper distribution always win.
- jasonvorhe 1y agoGood to know. Didn't know I was following this many nerds over there.
- timeon 1y agoReminds me Shadowrun.
- lemonberry 1y agoI loved this game! I still have the original rulebook. That my AD&D 2nd ed. books, Star Frontiers and Gamma World boxed sets may be my most prized possessions.
- debo_ 1y agoI'm running a Cities Without Number campaign now, but I sure do steal a lot from Shadowrun.
- solardev 1y agoDid you ever try the CRPG Shadowrun Chronicles games?
- lemonberry 1y agoI did not. I didn't get into computers until much later. Though I did die of Typhoid a bunch of times on the Oregon Trail when I was in junior high.
- gopher_space 1y agoThrow a few Uncle Al catalogs on the pile and we’d have similar childhoods. Gamma World was actually pretty amazing.
- lemonberry 1y agoCool! I had to look "Uncle Al catalogs" up. I remember seeing ads for Car Wars, but never played it myself. There were so many neat games back then. Gamma World was really neat and timely given how fearful we all were of nuclear war. I remember watching Road Warrior at the time and thinking that Gamma World could actually be the world we live in. Dragon Magazine would occasionally have articles on Gamma World too. So much food for the young imagination.
- the_real_cher 1y agoX is pretty lenient with the banning though. It seems like the best of the worst.
- numpad0 1y agoTwitter is "lenient" with ban evasion because it runs on cognitive load and they have no time to deal with it themselves. It's just completely beyond cognitive capacity of its controlling parties(including financial owners) that it could appear that they are chill with speeches it hosts as well as unilateral cultural influencing capabilities it has.
- unsupp0rted 1y agoPeople go where they’re treated best
- neilv 1y agoMore cyberpunk than this would be for the official author side to be a `.onion`, with a vanity subdomain that took a borrowed farm of GPUs a week to compute, and an RSS/Atom reader feed from that, plus a Fediverse/Mastodon account for the normies that you host yourself from an offshore data haven, paid for with mixed BTC, and a Reddit account just to keep some twerp from grabbing your name, all of which you access exclusively through Tor Browser, from a dedicated/compartmentalized immutable device. :) But I'm sympathetic to authors feeling they have to be on the popular social media platforms. I don't know about big-name authors like Mr. Stephenson, but when I looked into writing fiction myself, the advice for new and less-known writers was to actively work marketing on all of Twitter/X, Instagram, especially TikTok (BookTok), and others. (I decided it was too much demoralizing work, to not only write novels, which is grueling, but then to have to play games with TikTok influencers, if you want enough people to actually read the product of your suffering.)
- Gibbon1 1y agoFriend of mine complain about twitter and then turn around and send me twitter links. Headdesk.