I'd give Discord a try. Anyone can make their own server, and invite only those they want there. I have a family one and some friend ones and a few more broader ones, but it's nothing like the larger social media sites.
My family one has like 7 people on it. We chat, can voice and video chat, post pictures, etc. But it's just us. Just the family. Nobody else can show up unless someone invites them, and if I don't want them there, I can kick them.
While it's not private in the sense that it's a corporate serve
I picked MeWe because it was the only one I've visited lately, but I certainly can't say if it's "best" in any sense. I looked at it a couple of years ago and lost interest, but decided to take another look recently. Haven't formed a new opinion yet, but I'm planning to look around more tomorrow...
One not listed that I've been using quite a bit lately is WT.Social, which has been around a couple of years. Long before "the former guy" started hitting on the domain, but hopefully that won't last as long as hi
Yeah the only two I have any real knowledge of of on this list were the two alt-right centipede dens, Gab and Parler, which I'm sure many have for their associations with hate and terrorism if nothing else. Kind of disturbing that of all the options out there, two far-right cesspools were on the Slashdot poll...is Slashdot going to embrace its budding status as the Internet's fallen waste tray and become an alt-right anti-vax forum?
I do know about Mastodon, which seems technically interesting, but it wasn't
Addendum: I just had to look up the remaining options to see how far this pattern goes. GETTR is another centipede den and Carbon is another planet-incinerating ponzi grifter scheme. THE ONLY POLL OPTIONS ARE 4 NAZI SITES AND 2 CRYPTOBRO SITES.
Seriously I want someone at Slashdot management to explain this shit.
It's more the alt-right people get kicked off of the mainstream sites and make some crappy clone as an alternative. To break away from the big tech sites an alternative really has to fit a niche and a lot of the time that's appealing to nazis
It’s funny how all alternatives to the big tech establishment are branded alt right.
Let's go over the social media cycle chart here.
Step one - Someone says some shit (not too outlandish, but pretty bad) and gets banned.
Step two - "How dare they?!" So someone goes to start putting together a new social media site.
Step three - The rag-tag built from a bunch of loosely held together bits of open source projects social media site goes live on some cloud service hosting.
Step four - Since it's literally just a bunch of things duct tape together, there's breaks and it allows people to do things
You do not live in a free society unless people are free to say and do what is legal to do
Alright keep that "legal" thing in mind.
companies should not be able to refuse service to individuals based on reputation, past crimes, political beliefs, speech , religion, sexuality , race or gender.
For some of those things we have legal protections for others we do not. It is via our government that we granted "protected" rights. Yes, yes, everyone yells "we're born with rights" but if nobody protects and keeps them, then it doesn't matter if you're born with them or not. You can think of this as "You have rights as long as the companies have to give you those rights."
If they do then they are acting as governance and determining the social contract.
No they are acting in their own interest. Someone walks into your home, it is fair game for
blockchain isn't inherently anti-efficient. A few notable chains have a lot of hashing power backing them, but that's an outcome of profit, not a design goal.
A small scale blockchain could be entirely ran off a raspi.
A proof-of-work blockchain at least is inherently anti-efficient, and wasting resources as a ham-fisted but somewhat egalitarian way of preventing a few users from hogging all the payouts is indeed a design goal. The only alternative known so far is proof-of-stake, which for cryptocurrencies or blockchain systems handling assets with value, makes "the rich get richer" an inherent feature of the system.
Again though: for low-sec work, you can process blocks with no more compute req than a raspi.
I don't think 3 watts to process a ledger is anti-effecient.
The currency chains only scale up to so much power because of security requirements.
And you never experienced BBS over packet radio...you needed ham radio license, we had our social network (sort of) and it was around 1988. Internet arrived here for everybody about ten years later...
They fall into two categories: the right-wing and the crypto. What is even the point of asking which one is the best? Why would anyone look for the company of these social network, except trolling (for the lulz) or for some weird academic assignment?
First-paragraph descriptions from Wikipedia: * GETTR "prevalence of extreme content on the platform, including racism, antisemitism, and terrorist propaganda" * MeWe: "popular among American conservatives, conspiracy theorists, and anti-vaxxers." * Parler: "often contain far-right content, antisemitism, and conspiracy theories such as QAnon" * Gab: "Widely described as a haven for extremists including neo-Nazis, white supremacists, white nationalists, the alt-right, and QAnon conspiracy theorists,"
* Minds: "blockchain-based social network. Users can earn money or cryptocurrency for using Minds, and tokens can be used to boost their posts" * Carbon: not described on Wikipedia, self-described as "Social Crypto Gaming"
Left-wing extremists don't have much of a reason to move off the mainstream platforms. They aren't planning an armed revolution, and will wind up with a capitalist overlord no matter what.
Imagine a resistance made up by people who have to stick to their fringe media outlets and remain in "safe space" social media circles just so they can perpetuate the insanity that they spew. If you guys are the resistance, we lost already.
Go on then, tweet those tweets and see which one you get censured for. Then, come back and post a link to the second one so we can see that it didn't get banned.
(I'll wait)
The "rest of the world" sees it as a pretty savage indictment on the USA that you feel that someone who describes himself as a socialist (IE slightly left of centre) is regarded as far left in that troubled country.
Majority of countries left wing extremists would be killed for the behaviors they believe they're entitled to here. I have no idea why western people think the rest of the world is sunshine and bunnies.
Most of the world won't remotely tolerate this at all. If you try to take someones wealth and redistribute it, they'd kill you, if you were yelling and screaming in peoples faces that you're a real girl even though you have a penis, they'd kill you. I could list examples all day that if it was done in most o
When you break into a store on some city's main street to steal something and do so, you've committed a crime. People on the street care. The people who work at the store care. The owners of the store care. The police of the city care at least a little bit even if there is no real hope of catching who did it in a riot. Maybe more people in the city care if it was widespread. The rest of us - glad I don't live in X. If you use peaceful protests as a cover it doesn't necessarily mean we care any more or less,
I don't watch the network TV news programs or the TV "news" channels much at all. I think the last time I spent much time looking at TV news was when the last Iraq war broke out. I also don't spend much time on internet news sites and am not on social media in the list presented in the poll or any other except Slashdot. That isn't to say I'm not subject to or influenced by news at all, but I'm neither hypnotized by it nor one of the crowd that only gets news from CNN or Fox (or whatever other right wing "ne
What a clown. Citing stuff like "battlepenguin.com" doesn't really add to your credibility when you make ridiculous claims. If you haven't figured out that Trump lost by now, there's really no hope for you. Every part of government has confirmed it and there was never any more than a handful of cases of voter fraud found (including people fraudulantly voting for Trump).
There's clear video of the mob on Jan 6 beating police officers to get into the building, they kept pushing, assaulting officer and smash
At one entrance the police retreated, at others, the rioters beat them and forced their way in. There's video of that. You've seen those videos too and you know it was wrong, but it doesn't fit your narrative. You're still pushing the "they were just tourists" when the people were there to prevent the counting of votes and disrupt the legitimate election process.
By the way, we're not only a republic, but a representative democracy and it's common to refer to our government as democracy. Maybe they don't t
Pretty much everything other than the giants will get a right-wing bias automatically, as it absorbs users banned by the giants for having right-wing bias. Twitter in particular is notorious for tolerating left-wing extremism while banning everything opposed to it as hate speech.
Having an opinion that is wrong won't get you banned from a platform. It's been like that for years. Straight up perpetuating lies to basic facts will get you banned. Trumpers have changed the political landscape permanently by weaponizing the latter. It was bound to happen eventually, they just did it first.
Masks work - banned for contradicting the CDC saying they don't, healthcare workers threatened with immediate termination if they wear a mask around CV positive patients (source - happened to my ICU nurse GF)
Masks don't work - banned for contradicting the CDC (also - masks don't work from CDC to 'preserve PPE for healthcare workers' - yeah, no... medical facilities that had a duty to maintain a stockpile of PPE 'outsourced' that to 3rd parties with no PPE and those Wallstreet orgs might have faced liabilit
In defense of MeWe.com, I don't see any reference to popularity among conservatives until well into the history of the site on Wikipedia. On the site itself I don't see much more politically slanted commentary than I do on thefacebook. I use MeWe regularly, and there are some really great groups: watercolor artists, guinea pig aficionados, motorcyclists, and some really good linux/tech groups.
shasldot? Wow. Whatever happened to self-editing? Oh that's right. A "Feature" not included for 99.99875% of the Meat Popsicles posting on *any* forum.
I agree there could be, in principle, a differentiated or unfair treatment of left or right. The thing is, not in this case. Gab and GETTR were explicitly created by right-wing people for their own expression. Parler and MeWe were not explicitly intended right-wing, but attracted them when they were mentioned by politicians to their supporters.
You are right that the descriptions are terse, that's a requirement for a one-paragraph summary. I did choose to cite just a few words, so can argue that some context
(There continues to not be an alt-left. The alt-right defined themselves as such. What the alt-right describes as the alt-left is either old and practically non-existent in the US today (i.e. pro true-communism on a national scale), or is old, and is the same viewpoint as was held in the majority by what is referred to as "The Greatest Generation" (i.e. anti-fascism). These differ from the self-described alt-right in that the alt-right employs a novel set of practices that very much differ from the Establis
The uninformed keep trying to FUD Wikipedia, but it's highly resistant to defacement on any article that is remotely a current issue, and it takes no time to inspect whether an article or a specific claim is backed by references, and if those references are reliable sources. If those who try to spread Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt have a problem with any article or claim, they are free to voice their concerns in the talk page to at least put them on record. This entire framework of policies and guidelines has
I find it useful to have resources that cite sources that I can easily and independently verify. It's much more reliable than some random part time pundit insisting he's right because his gut feeling tells him so.
Do you have evidence that Wikipedia is wrong in this case, or are you just being lazy and trying to cast doubt on Wikipedia, despite study after study that finds it to be significantly more reliable than proprietary encyclopedias? This counter-argument is old and lazy. If any of those descriptions are inaccurate, then go fix them; at least go fix them to include the controversy, if and only if you happen to have a reliable 2nd party source that says otherwise. But if you did, you'd raise that argument inste
I've just opened GAB and it showed me two most popular videos at the moment.
The first one is about Bob Saget ostensibly dying from a booster shot [gab.com] for COVID. Not confirmed by anyone in the whole world but the caster made it look like it could be the only reason.
The second video is about Dr. Fauci and NIH paying the Wuhan Institute to weaponize [gab.com] the coronavirus and make it a biological weapon.
Both videos have thousands of views and hundreds of likes with almost zero comments. Is it what these alternative social networks about? Platforms for spreading conspiracy theories and outright dangerous BS? Yes, some extremely rare people have adverse reactions to vaccines but if not for vaccines multiple more people would have been dead. Oh, god.
"Bob Saga is the latest Hollywood star to die after confirming he was vexed and booster, new year new strain and Washington State is prepping the citizens for internment. CLICK HERE STOP SUPPORTING COMPANIES THAT WANT TO DESTROY YOU:"
Amazing quality of the journalism and editing over there too. Bob Saga is vexed and booster! If the site wasn't such a raging dumpster fire of smooth-brains overall, I might suspect that to be an attempt at humor...
Just before voting I changed my mind and vote because I realized that I couldn't honestly vote that they all suck because I've never been a member of any of them and don't want to. I have no interest in social media, especially when I see people wasting hours every day following them. I, at least, have better things to do than obsess on what other strangers are saying and doing especially when they're talking about things I don't give a damn about.
I, at least, have better things to do than obsess on what other strangers are saying and doing especially when they're talking about things I don't give a damn about.
All social media sites reflect the values of the people who use them, and the people who run them. So yeah, you certainly could say they suck because they're inhabited by people who mainly engage pop culture, "small talk", and personal relationships you don't value. And you could say they such because they're run by pro-profit corporations who collect and manipulate vast amounts of personal information.
Both those "new" social networks also reflect the values of people, mostly folks consumed by crazy consp
They don't exactly reflect the values of the inhabitants. They reflect the values of the inhabitants as filtered by the medium. What you say face to face is not what you say in text, what you say in a real-time text conversation is not what you say in a discussion divided into posts, what you say anonymously is not what you say under your own name, and whether and in what form you get feedback on what you say also affacts what content you feel strongly enough about to go ahead and put out there. A lot of ou
All the existing ones do too. IMO, social media is the worst invention of the past century. It brings out the worst in people, promotes obsessive behavior, sucks away people's time, and can cause depression or even suicide when people are cyber-bullied or think their lives are worthless because they aren't as perfect as the fake facades that other people post on social media.
At the risk of sounding like a luddite, there really is something to be said for the old-fashioned method of just talking to someone face-to-face. I don't know if it's because it's easier to set up echo chambers online, or the lack of empathy when you can't see the human on the other end, or whatever, but it just seems like every form of social media out there breeds psychopathy for some reason.
Not sure about that, the "old-fashioned method of just talking to someone face-to-face" leaves you somewhat vulnerable to a certain pandemic currently making the rounds.
I've made accounts on all except Carbon, which I'm not sure I've ever heard of.
From a technical basis Minds seems to be the best - it's all open source - and they're pretty sound on free speech as well without becoming a toxic swamp of lunatics. (At least not yet.)
The crypto stuff is an annoying distraction but mostly you can ignore it.
MeWe is ugly, Parler already died once, Gab is run by crazy people, and Gettr is just mirror-world Twitter with all the same flaws but a different audience.
By it's nature Gettr is simple and therefore the most complete - it's how Twitter used to function (and behave). I also truly admire it reserves Twitter verified handles - a clever recruitment tool.
Yes, really. It's a replacement for those small-town newspapers that never followed up on an interesting story. You were always just left hanging. But if there was any local scuttlebutt about it, Nextdoor will find it.
Really, no option for Fediverse. We're talking about thousands of independently run servers across the world, running software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Misskey, Peertube and Pixelfed, all communicating to each other via ActivityPub.
Maybe they're going by user numbers? Hard to believe each of the poll options has more than a million users. Slashdot unfortunately is overrun with trolls so I tend to spend less time here than ever. Polls like this as it's discussion section just confirm my decision but I'm glad someone mentioned what I consider the most promising kind of social networking.
I remember Trillian - is could combine your messaging from various apps like ICQ and MSN Messenger etc. Where's the social one, that combines your social networks into a one stop shop for them?
I happily paid for Trillian Pro. That client was better than every other service's client that it took the place of. I think a couple of my accounts still show the Trillian icon as my profile image as a result.
Where are the options for...whatever Trump is calling his hacked-before-beta social media network, and...whatever the fuck that dumb pillow guy is calling his. I can't remember the names of them, but I like to be inclusive and I don't feel right voting for "they all suck" without those 2 options in there.
I never expected it to be any good, but I wanted to see what it was instead of just reading about it in the news.
I made 5 posts over 2 days and then gave it up. Not that I care, but I got 1 follower and zero likes. 2 of my posts were extremely critical of anti-vaxxers and that was before anyone ever heard of COVID. In one of my posts I said anti-vaxxers were not only insane, but dangerous to others.
Nobody replied to anything I wrote, but it says I have "7 Gabs". I'm not sure what the other 2 were. I know m
Want to be happier? Get on a small social media platform with a limited subset of users with are 70% in tune with you. Ditch the big "mega platforms"
Humans aren't mentally prepared to be bombarded with the extreme level of counter opinions and noise on the mega platforms.
Anxiety and stress come hidden just as strong as the Dopamine rush from validation. Don't trust anything on social media platforms as fact.
I tried a few of them a couple of years ago. I didn't even need to go LOOKING for the Naziz, Sovereign Citizens, and various other right-wing nutjobs. These networks are designed to drag them right to your incoming feed if you're foolish enough to follow politics, science, or technology feeds. It's frankly amazing how efficient social media is at delivering hardcore white supremacist messages to you. Anyway, some "free speech" commitment they have. Turns out Nazis don't like it when you say their torture an
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...for any of them.
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I'm still here and haven't even been on Discord and despise Facebook.
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I'd give Discord a try. Anyone can make their own server, and invite only those they want there. I have a family one and some friend ones and a few more broader ones, but it's nothing like the larger social media sites.
My family one has like 7 people on it. We chat, can voice and video chat, post pictures, etc. But it's just us. Just the family. Nobody else can show up unless someone invites them, and if I don't want them there, I can kick them.
While it's not private in the sense that it's a corporate serve
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We use discord at school (and slack for more official communication).
Discord seems to be a better in every way slack to me.
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You mean names like Slack, Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp? I think it is less the name and more of no sales people.
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Two words: Troll Poll
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Don't discount Parler, this is exciting to watch.
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I didn't even know most of these were a thing.
I've heard of Parler, just because of the Trump stuff. And somewhere I heard that Gab was a thing. But that's it.
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Carbon is "Social play to earn gaming."
I'll be honest, I play because it's fun. Not because someone is paying me.
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I picked MeWe because it was the only one I've visited lately, but I certainly can't say if it's "best" in any sense. I looked at it a couple of years ago and lost interest, but decided to take another look recently. Haven't formed a new opinion yet, but I'm planning to look around more tomorrow...
One not listed that I've been using quite a bit lately is WT.Social, which has been around a couple of years. Long before "the former guy" started hitting on the domain, but hopefully that won't last as long as hi
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Yeah the only two I have any real knowledge of of on this list were the two alt-right centipede dens, Gab and Parler, which I'm sure many have for their associations with hate and terrorism if nothing else. Kind of disturbing that of all the options out there, two far-right cesspools were on the Slashdot poll...is Slashdot going to embrace its budding status as the Internet's fallen waste tray and become an alt-right anti-vax forum?
I do know about Mastodon, which seems technically interesting, but it wasn't
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Addendum: I just had to look up the remaining options to see how far this pattern goes. GETTR is another centipede den and Carbon is another planet-incinerating ponzi grifter scheme. THE ONLY POLL OPTIONS ARE 4 NAZI SITES AND 2 CRYPTOBRO SITES.
Seriously I want someone at Slashdot management to explain this shit.
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Only nazis deny that the alt-right is just nazis in khakis.
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Only nazis deny that the alt-right is just nazis in khakis.
The alt-right is a bunch of fascists who can't get laid.
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It's more the alt-right people get kicked off of the mainstream sites and make some crappy clone as an alternative. To break away from the big tech sites an alternative really has to fit a niche and a lot of the time that's appealing to nazis
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Ok, neo-nazis and white supremacists
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It’s funny how all alternatives to the big tech establishment are branded alt right.
Let's go over the social media cycle chart here.
Step one - Someone says some shit (not too outlandish, but pretty bad) and gets banned.
Step two - "How dare they?!" So someone goes to start putting together a new social media site.
Step three - The rag-tag built from a bunch of loosely held together bits of open source projects social media site goes live on some cloud service hosting.
Step four - Since it's literally just a bunch of things duct tape together, there's breaks and it allows people to do things
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You do not live in a free society unless people are free to say and do what is legal to do
Alright keep that "legal" thing in mind.
companies should not be able to refuse service to individuals based on reputation, past crimes, political beliefs, speech , religion, sexuality , race or gender.
For some of those things we have legal protections for others we do not. It is via our government that we granted "protected" rights. Yes, yes, everyone yells "we're born with rights" but if nobody protects and keeps them, then it doesn't matter if you're born with them or not. You can think of this as "You have rights as long as the companies have to give you those rights."
If they do then they are acting as governance and determining the social contract.
No they are acting in their own interest. Someone walks into your home, it is fair game for
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A small scale blockchain could be entirely ran off a raspi.
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A proof-of-work blockchain at least is inherently anti-efficient, and wasting resources as a ham-fisted but somewhat egalitarian way of preventing a few users from hogging all the payouts is indeed a design goal. The only alternative known so far is proof-of-stake, which for cryptocurrencies or blockchain systems handling assets with value, makes "the rich get richer" an inherent feature of the system.
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You know that all you're doing when you deny the true nature of these centipede dens is outing yourself as a centipede, right?
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Never heard of them! (Score:2)
I only know the old popular ones. Remember Friendster and MySpace? :P
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Yup. :)
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FriendFace
It's basically a diseased face of friendship !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rNgCnY1lPg
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FidoNet
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I miss our BBS days. :(
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Was that even popular? There are people who even used Internet with HAM radio too!
Gettr... Is that a dating app? (Score:3)
That one has more vote than the others probably because they chose the name so that it reminds people of Tinder and Grindr.
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That's indeed the *terminal* dating app!
WTF, shasldot editors? (Score:5, Informative)
They fall into two categories: the right-wing and the crypto. What is even the point of asking which one is the best? Why would anyone look for the company of these social network, except trolling (for the lulz) or for some weird academic assignment?
First-paragraph descriptions from Wikipedia:
* GETTR "prevalence of extreme content on the platform, including racism, antisemitism, and terrorist propaganda"
* MeWe: "popular among American conservatives, conspiracy theorists, and anti-vaxxers."
* Parler: "often contain far-right content, antisemitism, and conspiracy theories such as QAnon"
* Gab: "Widely described as a haven for extremists including neo-Nazis, white supremacists, white nationalists, the alt-right, and QAnon conspiracy theorists,"
* Minds: "blockchain-based social network. Users can earn money or cryptocurrency for using Minds, and tokens can be used to boost their posts"
* Carbon: not described on Wikipedia, self-described as "Social Crypto Gaming"
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Whatever became of left-wing extremists in the US?
Pretty much anywhere else in the world Bernie would be a centrist.
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Lol, I can't tell if you're trolling or fucking stupid.
Elther way, head back to facebook kid. Adults talk here.
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Left-wing extremists thrive on Twitter and Tumblr, untroubled by the administration.
"Being white is OK" will get you banned from Twitter for hate speech. "Kill all white people!" won't.
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That's a pretty savage indictment of the rest of the world.
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The "rest of the world" sees it as a pretty savage indictment on the USA that you feel that someone who describes himself as a socialist (IE slightly left of centre) is regarded as far left in that troubled country.
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Majority of countries left wing extremists would be killed for the behaviors they believe they're entitled to here. I have no idea why western people think the rest of the world is sunshine and bunnies.
Most of the world won't remotely tolerate this at all. If you try to take someones wealth and redistribute it, they'd kill you, if you were yelling and screaming in peoples faces that you're a real girl even though you have a penis, they'd kill you. I could list examples all day that if it was done in most o
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When you break into a store on some city's main street to steal something and do so, you've committed a crime. People on the street care. The people who work at the store care. The owners of the store care. The police of the city care at least a little bit even if there is no real hope of catching who did it in a riot. Maybe more people in the city care if it was widespread. The rest of us - glad I don't live in X. If you use peaceful protests as a cover it doesn't necessarily mean we care any more or less,
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I don't watch the network TV news programs or the TV "news" channels much at all. I think the last time I spent much time looking at TV news was when the last Iraq war broke out. I also don't spend much time on internet news sites and am not on social media in the list presented in the poll or any other except Slashdot. That isn't to say I'm not subject to or influenced by news at all, but I'm neither hypnotized by it nor one of the crowd that only gets news from CNN or Fox (or whatever other right wing "ne
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What a clown. Citing stuff like "battlepenguin.com" doesn't really add to your credibility when you make ridiculous claims. If you haven't figured out that Trump lost by now, there's really no hope for you. Every part of government has confirmed it and there was never any more than a handful of cases of voter fraud found (including people fraudulantly voting for Trump).
There's clear video of the mob on Jan 6 beating police officers to get into the building, they kept pushing, assaulting officer and smash
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At one entrance the police retreated, at others, the rioters beat them and forced their way in. There's video of that. You've seen those videos too and you know it was wrong, but it doesn't fit your narrative. You're still pushing the "they were just tourists" when the people were there to prevent the counting of votes and disrupt the legitimate election process.
By the way, we're not only a republic, but a representative democracy and it's common to refer to our government as democracy. Maybe they don't t
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Pretty much everything other than the giants will get a right-wing bias automatically, as it absorbs users banned by the giants for having right-wing bias.
Twitter in particular is notorious for tolerating left-wing extremism while banning everything opposed to it as hate speech.
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Straight up perpetuating lies to basic facts
Like claiming it's plausible the virus originated in Wuhan virology lab?
Like claiming contents of Hunter Biden's laptop were obtained legitimately?
These, who control the narrative control what is considered a lie.
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Masks don't work - banned for contradicting the CDC (also - masks don't work from CDC to 'preserve PPE for healthcare workers' - yeah, no... medical facilities that had a duty to maintain a stockpile of PPE 'outsourced' that to 3rd parties with no PPE and those Wallstreet orgs might have faced liabilit
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Considering the last poll was an attempt at boosting crypto-crap. I am pretty sure they are at least crypto bros.
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In defense of MeWe.com, I don't see any reference to popularity among conservatives until well into the history of the site on Wikipedia. On the site itself I don't see much more politically slanted commentary than I do on thefacebook. I use MeWe regularly, and there are some really great groups: watercolor artists, guinea pig aficionados, motorcyclists, and some really good linux/tech groups.
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shasldot? Wow. Whatever happened to self-editing? Oh that's right. A "Feature" not included for 99.99875% of the Meat Popsicles posting on *any* forum.
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I agree there could be, in principle, a differentiated or unfair treatment of left or right. The thing is, not in this case. Gab and GETTR were explicitly created by right-wing people for their own expression. Parler and MeWe were not explicitly intended right-wing, but attracted them when they were mentioned by politicians to their supporters.
You are right that the descriptions are terse, that's a requirement for a one-paragraph summary. I did choose to cite just a few words, so can argue that some context
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I find it useful to have resources that cite sources that I can easily and independently verify. It's much more reliable than some random part time pundit insisting he's right because his gut feeling tells him so.
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GAB (Score:4, Interesting)
I've just opened GAB and it showed me two most popular videos at the moment.
The first one is about Bob Saget ostensibly dying from a booster shot [gab.com] for COVID. Not confirmed by anyone in the whole world but the caster made it look like it could be the only reason.
The second video is about Dr. Fauci and NIH paying the Wuhan Institute to weaponize [gab.com] the coronavirus and make it a biological weapon. Both videos have thousands of views and hundreds of likes with almost zero comments. Is it what these alternative social networks about? Platforms for spreading conspiracy theories and outright dangerous BS? Yes, some extremely rare people have adverse reactions to vaccines but if not for vaccines multiple more people would have been dead. Oh, god.
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"Bob Saga is the latest Hollywood star to die after confirming he was vexed and booster, new year new strain and Washington State is prepping the citizens for internment. CLICK HERE STOP SUPPORTING COMPANIES THAT WANT TO DESTROY YOU:"
Amazing quality of the journalism and editing over there too. Bob Saga is vexed and booster! If the site wasn't such a raging dumpster fire of smooth-brains overall, I might suspect that to be an attempt at humor...
This might be... (Score:2)
the most unsuccessful /. poll I've ever seen. At least add some humor, like "CmdrTaco's Twitterface" or something...
I almost voted "They all suck." (Score:2)
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I, at least, have better things to do than obsess on what other strangers are saying and doing especially when they're talking about things I don't give a damn about.
So you spend time on Slashdot instead!
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All social media sites reflect the values of the people who use them, and the people who run them. So yeah, you certainly could say they suck because they're inhabited by people who mainly engage pop culture, "small talk", and personal relationships you don't value. And you could say they such because they're run by pro-profit corporations who collect and manipulate vast amounts of personal information.
Both those "new" social networks also reflect the values of people, mostly folks consumed by crazy consp
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Social media sucks, yet you're on /.
Not only do all the new ones suck... (Score:3)
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Not sure about that, the "old-fashioned method of just talking to someone face-to-face" leaves you somewhat vulnerable to a certain pandemic currently making the rounds.
Minds (Score:2)
I've made accounts on all except Carbon, which I'm not sure I've ever heard of.
From a technical basis Minds seems to be the best - it's all open source - and they're pretty sound on free speech as well without becoming a toxic swamp of lunatics. (At least not yet.)
The crypto stuff is an annoying distraction but mostly you can ignore it.
MeWe is ugly, Parler already died once, Gab is run by crazy people, and Gettr is just mirror-world Twitter with all the same flaws but a different audience.
They're all cancer (Score:2)
Those damn mellennials ruined the internet by using their real names.
Gettr (Score:1)
By it's nature Gettr is simple and therefore the most complete - it's how Twitter used to function (and behave). I also truly admire it reserves Twitter verified handles - a clever recruitment tool.
Nextdoor (Score:2)
Yes, really. It's a replacement for those small-town newspapers that never followed up on an interesting story. You were always just left hanging. But if there was any local scuttlebutt about it, Nextdoor will find it.
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Good call. NextDoor actually has users instead of hype.
Prefer old school USENET (Score:1)
Fediverse/Mastodon/Pleroma (Score:1)
Really, no option for Fediverse. We're talking about thousands of independently run servers across the world, running software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Misskey, Peertube and Pixelfed, all communicating to each other via ActivityPub.
That is the future. The future is distributed.
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So, No One Cares? (Score:1)
That mirrors my experience.
'Social media' was a mistake (Score:2)
Forgot to mention... (Score:2)
* Freedom Neil
You mean to say... (Score:1)
... that these aren't made up names? That these are for real social networks?
Where's the one to rule them all? (Score:2)
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missing options (Score:2)
Where are the options for...whatever Trump is calling his hacked-before-beta social media network, and...whatever the fuck that dumb pillow guy is calling his. I can't remember the names of them, but I like to be inclusive and I don't feel right voting for "they all suck" without those 2 options in there.
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"Truth" and "Frank", respectively
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They will all fail... (Score:2)
Facebook "works" because everyone and their grandma (literally) is on there already. No one will join gettr just to see their racist uncle's rants.
This was a difficult poll (Score:2)
I just checked my Gab account after nearly 3 years (Score:2)
I never expected it to be any good, but I wanted to see what it was instead of just reading about it in the news.
I made 5 posts over 2 days and then gave it up. Not that I care, but I got 1 follower and zero likes. 2 of my posts were extremely critical of anti-vaxxers and that was before anyone ever heard of COVID. In one of my posts I said anti-vaxxers were not only insane, but dangerous to others.
Nobody replied to anything I wrote, but it says I have "7 Gabs". I'm not sure what the other 2 were. I know m
I'm Old Fashioned (Score:2)
I've got Cowboy Neal's little black book.
Happiness (Score:2)
Humans aren't mentally prepared to be bombarded with the extreme level of counter opinions and noise on the mega platforms.
Anxiety and stress come hidden just as strong as the Dopamine rush from validation. Don't trust anything on social media platforms as fact.
tldr; get off of Facebook, Reddit, and TikTok.
TrumpTok / The Truth Social (Score:2)
I see this wasnâ(TM)t listed as an option due to unfair bias against Dear Leader.
None of them (Score:2)
I tried a few of them a couple of years ago. I didn't even need to go LOOKING for the Naziz, Sovereign Citizens, and various other right-wing nutjobs. These networks are designed to drag them right to your incoming feed if you're foolish enough to follow politics, science, or technology feeds. It's frankly amazing how efficient social media is at delivering hardcore white supremacist messages to you. Anyway, some "free speech" commitment they have. Turns out Nazis don't like it when you say their torture an