friendships created in the internet are so strong and real bc these people are not judging u by looks, money or status like these people are people u actually met bc of their personalities, fandoms, likes, standpoints in life that people in their real lives never appreciated
Hey since Google is useless, how do you get into a public wifi where the login page loads, but when you press connect, the page just refreshes?
i honestly think the healthiest way to have fun on social media is to find a group of friends and value them as people just as you’d do offline because in my experience fixating entirely on being an ‘internet presence’ with a huge follower base does really weird things to people
here’s a new ideological movement for you: internet iconoclasm
stop putting random internet people on pedestals because they’re funny or quirky or for any reason at all actually
self examine and self criticize: are you putting too much stock in parasocial internet relationships? are you being mindful of the humanity of others?
never lay down your pride to defend someone you’ve never even talked to
remember that the person and the persona can be very different
if an online celebrity or influencer deserves to be torn down, then let them be torn down.
I’m not nearly as obsessed with privacy as some people (I still use Google for tons of things) but “smart” things (outside of smartphones)(which is also a phrase I don’t really hear much outside of people who use them grudgingly/have flip/dumbphones) and things like Alexa make me profoundly uncomfortable. My fridge doesn’t need to be connected to my phone, it just needs to be a fridge. I don’t need anything picking up on my voice unless I’m actually in a call or recording video.
I don’t get it. Like, I have almost all of my pictures I have access to on the cloud, so I’m not exactly obsessed with keeping my life private to corporations, but.. really. Why does your fridge need to be smart. Why do you need Alexa. Why.
don’t join mastodon. the lax nature of regulations makes it an extremely popular platform for maps and pedophiles.
there are always alternatives to tumblr but mastodon is Not a trustworthy or good one
This is based on a drastic misunderstanding of what Mastodon is. It’s not a social media site like tumblr – it’s open-source code that allows anyone to create a social media site, which can then interact with other sites using that code. To say Mastodon has “lax regulations” is really misleading, because Mastodon itself has no regulations, it only has tools for moderators to regulate their own instances
Mastodon “allows” pedophiles in the same way that email “allows” identity theft scams. No, “email” doesn’t put a stop to identity theft, but “email” is just a set of protocols for sending messages – it’d be absurd to expect it to
Most Mastodon instances (including mastodon.social, the largest and oldest) do more to keep pedophiles off their platform than tumblr ever has, by having strict rules against it, banning any instances that don’t have strict rules against it, and actively moderating to enforce those rules. At that point it’s as if the pedophiles are on a different website entirely – because they literally are on a different domain
As someone who actually uses it, I can confirm that I’ve never had or even heard of a run-in with pedophiles. Admins know the instances that allow it and quickly block and spread the word about any new ones that pop up. Again, it’s been more of an issue for me on tumblr than it’s ever been on masto
Please reblog this. People love spreading this rumor without knowing what they’re talking about, and it’s driving people away from non-corporate, community-controlled, secure open-source social media. And that’s a real big shame
don’t join mastodon. the lax nature of regulations makes it an extremely popular platform for maps and pedophiles.
there are always alternatives to tumblr but mastodon is Not a trustworthy or good one
This is based on a drastic misunderstanding of what Mastodon is. It’s not a social media site like tumblr – it’s open-source code that allows anyone to create a social media site, which can then interact with other sites using that code. To say Mastodon has “lax regulations” is really misleading, because Mastodon itself has no regulations, it only has tools for moderators to regulate their own instances
Mastodon “allows” pedophiles in the same way that email “allows” identity theft scams. No, “email” doesn’t put a stop to identity theft, but “email” is just a set of protocols for sending messages – it’d be absurd to expect it to
Most Mastodon instances (including mastodon.social, the largest and oldest) do more to keep pedophiles off their platform than tumblr ever has, by having strict rules against it, banning any instances that don’t have strict rules against it, and actively moderating to enforce those rules. At that point it’s as if the pedophiles are on a different website entirely – because they literally are on a different domain
As someone who actually uses it, I can confirm that I’ve never had or even heard of a run-in with pedophiles. Admins know the instances that allow it and quickly block and spread the word about any new ones that pop up. Again, it’s been more of an issue for me on tumblr than it’s ever been on masto
Please reblog this. People love spreading this rumor without knowing what they’re talking about, and it’s driving people away from non-corporate, community-controlled, secure open-source social media. And that’s a real big shame
ifesbob 