Anyone have a link that works for Canadians, you MONSTERS?

“Hey guys can you help me disconnect from the fire hose of human joy to appease all the grumps around me?”

We can’t and we won’t.

Twitter’s even worse than that. Sometimes they require login to view a tweet. Sometimes you can see every post on an account. Sometimes there are certain posts missing in a timeline but you can’t know without logging in.

Ridiculously annoying.

How would you define “dry texter”? How would a dry texter reply to those messages?

As the person asking people to fact check the claims of weird conspiracy theorists, I’m gonna have to ask for your sources on that one.

Edit: For anyone wondering, MBFC is transparent about their funding sources.

I’m awarding you three demerits for a reply that doesn’t make sense. Govern yourself accordingly.

I think that very few of these arguments are being made in good faith. For some people, any bias monitor is a barrier to sharing propaganda as news. Others just don’t understand how to use the site properly. Or use it in a really stupid way anyway. Like this:

1. Look at the ratings.
2. If something strikes you as odd, run around screaming like your hair’s on fire.

Instead of:

1. Look at the ratings.
2. If something strikes you as odd, read the part of the report that explains the rating.
3. Decide how important those things are to you and whether it’s a deal-breaker.

Others are like, ‘it’s telling me what to think, man!’ who don’t seem to understand that those pages contain a wealth of information that you can include in your decision-making (or not). They’ve convinced themselves that it’s presented as the one and only source of absolute truth, which is really just something they made up to be angry about. No one but them is making that claim.

There also isn’t another free source that has that info in one place. There’s no better place to quickly find news org ownership info, the country they’re operating in (with links to info about press freedom in that country), and their history of factual reporting. But those people don’t care – they’re just viscerally reacting to the ratings, not reading the reports.

EDIT2: Commenters have some valid criticisms of MBFC.

Here’s another in my “making friends” series of posts.

Commenters DO NOT have valid criticisms of MBFC. They are universally wrong, have no idea how MBFC works, and are too lazy to look it up. The misinfo ghouls among them are happy to repeat lies over and over until people start to accept them.

Some of these people can be pretty convincing but I urge you to actually fact check their arguments. Most of these people are just parroting bullshit they saw someone else say. The “best” of these are basically artisanal, hand-crafted AI hallucinations: high-confidence, syntactically-correct nonsense. Don’t put that glue on your pizza. If someone posts an MBFC link as evidence, click it and read it. Nearly every single time, the link they posted contradicts them and they just haven’t read it.

And ask yourself why no one ever posts peer-reviewed research backing up their claims. It’s a simple reason: it doesn’t exist. Every single piece of academic research on MBFC says they’re wrong. The MBFC conspiracy theorists can’t just ignore that body of research because it’s inconvenient – they need a compelling reason why all research to date is wrong. For their claims to be true, it would require a massive conspiracy between academics, journalists, and media bias organizations because they are all in consensus about what makes good and bad news organizations. It’s loopy, tinfoil hat bullshit.

That’s really cool. Looks great too.

The headline is just riffing on the headline of the article it’s replying to.

The original article said that there is no value beyond a false sense of accomplishment in posting to social media. He is saying that there’s some value but also inherent value in creating alternatives to corporate (and in many cases fascist) media spaces.

Both of those people are SO FUCKING THIRSTY for constant approval.

Are you sure it’s appearance? You might sneeze with an accent.

So far so good! Some very unscientific observations from spending an absurd amount of time scrolling local on pixelfed.social:

The people coming from Instagram and TikTok seem way less grumpy than the microbloggers. People are having a lot of fun and not complaining about much. It’s kind of a trip seeing happy, joyful people on the Fediverse to be honest. Everything in the world suuuuuuuucks right now, so it’s felt like a bit of a refuge. Sometimes I’ll accidentally bounce over to the global feed and oh man is the change in tone jarring.

People don’t seem to have a problem with servers like the Twitter migrants did. Folks are still talking about it a lot on Mastodon though. I’ve literally not seen a single post about Pixelfed being “too complicated” to succeed, whereas it was (and is) pretty common to see “this place is great and all, but…” posts in the microblogging neighbourhood. Not sure why this is but it might be because the people coming to Pixelfed are generally younger than Mastodon users. This is just a guess, but I’d estimate the average age of Mastodon users is maybe mid-40s. Most of the people pouring into Pixelfed appear to be in their mid-to-late-20s. Perhaps those folks are just more accustomed to servers through Discord and gaming? Though people are generally captioning photos and not writing out lists of things they’re unhappy about and they could also just be unaware of servers altogether…

Pixelfed is easily the most diverse “corner” of the Fediverse now. Fedi is very white but a large number coming over now aren’t. Pixelfed.social has probably gone from being 75% men to 75% women in the last few weeks. Diversity is the best possible thing for the social web.

I’ve seen a bunch of people on Instagram promoting Feb 1st as “Global Switch Day” so hopefully it’ll keep blowing up.

Crypto chat! Crypto pics! Crypto vids! Nostr! Crypto!

Yes.

I won’t subscribe, post, or comment in ml.

Thanks for being a good sport. In these trying times we have to cherish every genuine updog moment we find ourselves in.

It’s federated encrypted messaging :)

Not too much. Sup with you?

It’s just in early development and hasn’t federated yet.

It’s a separate thing from Pixelfed though. Just developed by the same guy.

Imagine being the one guy who runs both of those and having them both blow up at once though 🪦rip

They should populate your home feed. Mine do. Could be because the site’s been a bit wobbly today…?

Edit: actually, it might only work for new posts with those tags!