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Also, support your local fediverse admins if you can. This isn’t easy to work through, given how invested larger platforms and troll farms are in lies right now that seem credible.

I guess I’m thankful Awoo and a good % of the fediverse have figured this out. I’m an optimist, and I think the defenders against disinfo have a strong advantage here compared to Twitter, etc. Mostly, because that weakness isn’t built into the platform to monetize it.

But that doesn’t make this any easier to deal with, until enough people make the jump. Maybe now is a good time to convince more of your friends to move to Masto?

One of the reasons I’ve been so closed off lately is I’ve experienced different iterations of this problem, and almost unwittingly caused this to happen to former friends a few years ago before I realized what was happening and shut that shit down. That scares the hell out of me, and I think about it a lot.

Truth dies in a vacuum that promotes mobbing and conspiracy. The only countermeasure I’ve found is to shut that shit down and defend with good administration.

Not in a great headspace as I watch Ben Wittes and news folks chased off of Twitter using the same disinfo and mob tactics employed against friends-of-friends by a different troll factory.

Social media has a serious disinfo and mob problem. I’ve studied this issue since the days Portal of Evil went after people on web forums, and I don’t know of a perfect solution.

But I’m pretty sure _a_ solution is to vet information better, and I’m thankful Masto seems to do so.

@mawr Splatoon 2 is so wholesome. 💜

@Soreth Eeeee ^..^

@mawr !!! ^..^

Forgot to post it here, but I finished Smaugust successfully this year. Arts are here: http://colorslive.com/author?id=33323

I’m also thinking of making more arts of this floof, but haven’t figured out exactly what yet:
https://awoo.space/media/DBzqt8PXgqiaHuduxmY

@Soreth It’s been too much for me, too. All of the hugs. All of them.

@mawr No prob!

@mawr Footnote: https://mobile.twitter.com/Harkaway/status/1036682350170656769

Fascism and abuse is efficient for ad clicks, at the expense of human activity. Which is the most succinct explanation I’ve seen for how Twitter got there in the first place.

@mawr So yeah. Fuck Twitter’s business model forever.

@mawr Also, I realized I missed including some context for how we get from Jones to bots.

The far-right media hellscape is an abuse and controversy factory meant to wear folks down, with accounts like Mike C and Jones on the supply side and bots forming the delivery pipeline. There are some very informative studies on how this is not an organic pattern, that it can be blocked, but Twitter is not doing so (in the US) because of their business model.

@mawr I also ignore Twitter’s official reasoning on decisions at this point, because short-term profit motivation is more predictive (and I think accurate) under scrutiny.

Twitter has a legit fear of stock value dropping once bots stop showing up in their active user figures. That fear now has precedent after causing the single greatest drop of Facebook stock when FB started removing bots.

I could almost sympathize, if it wasn’t so fucking evil.

@mawr It seems to be a combination of that, Jones’ screaming at conservative members of Congress, and the hearings on “bias against conservatives” (ugh) that Twitter and Facebook are up for this week, and how those play in the “conservative” (read: far right) media ecosystem.

I think what changed is Jones being *just* unpopular enough in terms of ad revenue to finally dump off the platform.

Oh good, they banned him, even if they lied again about their reasoning for doing so. Hopefully this starts a trend of conspiracy theorists like Jones being kryptonite to major platform owners.

I will never forget them tolerating it when they thought it would be profitable. Fuck you forever, Jack.

@mawr There are more than a few days that I wish scribbling “Duplicator” on the side of a cardboard box would actually work as a time-management strategy.

After crossing out “Transmogrifier” for the fiftieth time, for some reason.

My project space is messy and cluttered in a way that facilitates picking things up and working on them, and I would not have it any other way.

“So, what projects are you working on these days?”

Me: Not much, just a few art projects on the side, when I’m not working.

Also me:
https://awoo.space/media/kE7qI7vL710wlPYCxqI