2026-08-27 13:18 UTC
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@jollyorc@social.5f9.de 2026-08-27 13:22
@Catvalente@wandering.shop I am SO glad that I don't have any connection to those parts, so I've been blissfully ignorant of that, so I won't ask which dank corners of the internet those are. BTW: I'm GERMAN, meaning I don't really have any connection to Dolly whatsoever, and I STILL got the impression of "this was a really good person".
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@mark@mastodon.fixermark.com 2026-08-27 13:22
@Catvalente@wandering.shop It's insidious. The problem is incentives; they're trying to maximize numbers. One would think that the easiest way to do that would be to make a kind and welcoming place. ... Unfortunately, way, way too much evidence has shown that what really works to goose the numbers is getting people just angry enough to get into fights thinking they can change someone's mind. If you make a welcoming place, people scroll, look at cat photos, and leave. if you make a place for people to get angry, they'll back-and-forth with a stranger all damn day. We can do things about this, but if the only things we care about are money (and by proxy the engagement numbers that get us money), the saddle-point that makes the numbers biggest is "Angry shouting rooms." It's one of the things I appreciate about Mastodon---the controls and some key core infrastructure decisions (and the fact that nearly nobody is trying to get rich off of the infrastructure) really just disincentivize angry shouting rooms. I don't know if that will stay true if Masto gets really large, but it's true right now.
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@numodular@c.im 2026-08-27 14:02
@Catvalente@wandering.shop The #TechBros and #FossilFuels #Oligarchy systematic ploy of using failing educational systems - especially in the emotional range category - are just as effective of branching out risk through shareholders, in #Capitalism #greed. Sure, emergency measures of making Behavioral Science core education, along with removing the abusers from power, would make a measurable difference. But what's the probability of that happening, in the face of cascading root infrastructure collapsing around the globe?
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@imalcolm@mastodon.social 2026-08-27 14:22
@Catvalente@wandering.shop Utterly vile. Thankfully I haven't seen any examples of that yet; while it's out obviously there, I've managed to cultivate a little space here on Mastodon (and to a lesser extent Bsky) that's largely arsehole-free.