Times like these make me once again wish we had a proper abstraction for communities so you can easily disengage from topics you don't want to see without disengaging from the whole platform. The effects on mental health are clear. This model is absolute shit. But nothing substantial ever changes here. Mastodon still feels exactly like when I first joined 5 years ago, and other microblogging servers only added emoji reactions and quote posts to the mix. It's not like I don't appreciate these features, but they haven't changed anything about the core formula of all this.
Lots of phishing attempts going on at work. One email even tried to look more legit by putting a colleague from my department as another recipient, except it was just the same name and then a fictional email address.
@catraxx It installed the updates and then showed the login screen instead of shutting down. Good thing I checked or I only would've noticed hours later
@colinstu I can't blame you for assuming it, but I'm not talking about the US specifically. In Germany, the nazi party is on the rise and what the media is doing is:
1. picking up their talking points 2. presenting bad or lunatic statements as opinions with equal merit as any other 3. they give them a platform where they can spread their lies 4. if fact checks happen, it's much later when nobody will see them or even care 5. framing 6. outright lies in headlines
You can also see how our media picks up the Musk incident now. In past cases they called it what it is, a nazi salute, but now it's just an "awkward gesture" or an "alleged nazi salute" that sparked "confusion" etc. I'm so sick of this.
Volpeon 