@jwz hard agree, but I have learned that scolding people just doesn't work
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@fraying @codinghorror scolding people is, letās be honest, a core use case for the entire @jwz web experience I know I shouldnāt but I still get an occasional chuckle out of āchoke on a bucket of cocksā https://www.jwz.org/blog/2003/05/no-good-deed-goes-unpunished/ @luis_in_brief @fraying @jwz look, I also enjoy a lot of self destructive behaviors myself, now and then, but I also want the world to actually change in some reasonable timeframe This is great news, so do you happen to know the answer to what *does work*? because I think we collectively need to know, and so far all I hear is what doesn't work. Scolding doesn't work for me either.. Living by example works great for me, but doesn't enable discouraging my mom/dad/kids/pastor/neighbors/workplaceproximityacquiantence/friends/family from making the stupid choices for the big billionairistas... So what works? sounds great, except the #fediverse is a wide, sparse, network of community instances.. Hardly the marketing behemoth of a Centralized Corporationā¢, so "popular with users" is now exceedingly difficult, largely impeded by (basically) our individual Dunbar numbers.. TikTok was already a gargantuan corporation with a limitless marketing campaign when it started.. So... What... We Open Source ad buys for the superbowl pimping ActivityPub? How do community gardens get famous? That's cool man. I appreciate the discourse. My point is just yeah.. I'm gonna keep scolding people til they're shamed into submission, and ditch their corporate overlords for the sweet sweet life of doing all the hard work of being responsible for their own data.. easy peasy! :D @codinghorror @mousey @jwz There's no point running around after these people cus first, they'll suck up all your time with demands, and second, they'll trot off to the first VC-backed alternative when it comes along. How much oxygen was sucked out of the room in late '22 by people who were angry it wasn't Twitter, and where are they now? @codinghorror @mousey @jwz If they want to participate in something, they will. @davey_cakes @mousey @jwz yeah, turns out hard problems are hard. But if you're good at what you do, then you view that as a noble challenge, not as an impossibility. Oh, i was just wondering what works to spread the use of Technologies-That-Don't-Exploit-Users.. I mean, even health policy.. If it ends in "policy", it doesn't have a marketing department. Marketing works, but I don't see a lot of Kickstarters/GoFundMes for Advertising/Marketing of Open Source alternatives to corporately marketed data plantations (where you're the cotton). I've been told scolding doesn't work either. True, but it's cathartic. So, what works? Makes sense. The OP was asking about a social media site, so that's what I was addressing. I imagine policy outreach *is* different? It might even work to make "democratizing social media" a political platform? That feeds into my "Software is not economic, software is political" philosophy. As it stands however, people only think "software" and see "billionaires"... Software is stuck in the "market" and not in "community", so value is orthogonal to function. @codinghorror @jwz Oh I don't know. Maybe some people are susceptible to scolding, but are really quiet about it. |
@codinghorror @jwz But scolding people is a core use case for mastodon