● 05.01.22

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●● Don’t Become or Remain a Slave of Elon Musk (Social Control Media is Still a Bubble)

Posted in Deception at 5:04 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

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Summary: There has never been a better time to leave behind the medium which — even in its lesser-centralised forms — wastes time and impacts what people read and write (not for the better)

TWO months ago I called Social Control Media "a Bubble", seeing the fast-declining rates of participation or activity not only in Twitter but also Free/decentralised/federated platforms. The numbers are measurable for the latter category. Having left all Social Control Media (personal accounts, Techrights never truly bothered with those things; RSS is a lot better), I now see quite clearly what a waste of time it truly was.

called Social Control Media "a Bubble"

First of all, I’ve become more productive and less distracted, but more importantly I focus on topics not based on which “hashtags” I wish to use but based on what’s actually important. We’ve broadened our reach in RSS and we’re focusing more on Gemini, sometimes even Gopher. Those are self-hosted instances created and maintained by people all around the world. Managing a Gemini capsule is actually a whole lot easier than managing a Web site (self-hosting, not merely opening an account with some “blogging platform” that censors and can shut down any day).

The Net and the Web need to change. Twitter probably will become a niche site in the coming years; fans of oligarchy (or plutophiles) still post there, but how many people will be left for them to speak to? █

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