Huh? Harris - 48.3%, Trump - 49.8%
Dmxrob wrote to Argos <=-
Where is this overwhelming win at?
I'm tired of letting people "make up facts" and I intend to be very
vocal and call out BS when I see it.
Arelor wrote to j0hnny a1pha <=-
It is not rocket science. The problem is nowadays users don't want to ignore the things they dislike. They want them obliterated so nobody
can read them.
Matty wrote to Dmxrob <=-
It's interesting that over 90 million registered voters did not vote in the election.
poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Matty <=-
It's interesting that over 90 million registered voters did not vote in the election.
Yeah, the numbers were atypical this year.
poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Dmxrob <=-
I'm tired of letting people "make up facts" and I intend to be very
vocal and call out BS when I see it.
Unfortunately, that's where we're at now. Fabricate the truth and
enough people will amplify it. You spend your time debunking the lie to people who don't care and don't get to state your point.
Gamgee wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
Benghazi, classified email server at home, the Steele dossier, Russian collusion, Hunter's laptop, Joe's cognitive decline, more...
It is no untold story politics and polarization in the USA after our November elections and the overwhelming Win on a candidate. AND, the fury of the opposition over the epic loss.Huh? Harris - 48.3%, Trump - 49.8%
Where is this overwhelming win at?
I'm tired of letting people "make up facts" and I intend to be very
vocal and call out BS when I see it.
poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Gamgee <=-
Gamgee wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
Benghazi, classified email server at home, the Steele dossier, Russian collusion, Hunter's laptop, Joe's cognitive decline, more...
Hunter's laptop? Really?
I'm torn - I see Facebook and Twitter as a Convenient Evil, need to find
a way to minimize the negativity and falsehood.
Arelor wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
I don't know why people keep using that stuff. I certainly don't know
why people consider it convenient to begin with.
I have friends that use it because they have other friends who can only
be reached over one of these platforms, but that does not mean they are convenient.
Also, in some ways I feel like platforms like Facebook, Twitter, etc. are simply platforms to allow people to communicate and share things like
they would if they were hanging out in person, and thus shouldn't filter their content, but on the other hand, I also don't want a lot of fake
news being spread around (there has already been too much of that).
If you're running a business, Facebook is an easy way to get reach.
I agree with you here. I these are meant to be platforms to share things and communicate with each other and should not be filtered, aside from what they feel is inappropriate content like adult content. However, we need to somehow educate people that these platforms are not the best way to get your news, or at least educate how to vet so called news on these platforms. I don't know how people thought that this is the best methods of news content.
I have the feeling lots of people are keeping a social media presence because they have been told they need it, but they are not running the numbers as to how much bang they get for their buck. A marketing agent
Arelor wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
If you're running a business, Facebook is an easy way to get reach.
The clinic here used to have a Facebook page with a lot of reach.
The boss decided to shut it down because it wasn't cost effective. The impact of shutting it down was zero.
I have the feeling lots of people are keeping a social media presence because they have been told they need it, but they are not running the numbers as to how much bang they get for their buck. A marketing agent once told me the dirty secret that so many marketing plans cost way
more than what they can realistically generate in revenue for the
customer - I definitively think "free" social media is in this category for most firms.
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neoshock wrote to Nightfox <=-
However, we need to somehow educate people that these platforms are not the best way to get your news, or at least educate how to vet so called news on these platforms. I don't know how people thought that this is
the best methods of news content.
Arelor wrote to neoshock <=-
Well, TV and radio news are junk services and I think enough people
knows that already. This begs the question: if you know regular
mainstream news outlets are junk, where will you get your news from?
Periodists made people look for stuff elsewhere. They lit this fire.
Let them burn in it. The only regret is we still have no good news outlets.
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I want to find a nice independent news feed not run or owned by people
with a significant political bias. Is that still possible?
I guess I find in question is the nuclear explosion within a family whenhese
opinions are open topic conversations and one of the opposing sides push t always make their opinion "my way or the highway" point.
It is no untold story politics and polarization in the USA after our Novem elections and the overwhelming Win on a candidate. AND, the fury of the opposition over the epic loss.
The dilemma now is the nuclear waste fallout withing families "DISOWNING"ach
other completely. No communication, total silence and yes, the Holidays w family did not exist.
So, I guess the real question is simple. Is this appropriate and is this approach to resolve?
In our family we have one "my way" member. Their side lost this time. Either way, we know not to bring anything up (even the parts of "we" that are on the same side, too) and that is how we deal with it.
Although we've never made a united decision to do so, we don't open the topic and it usually won't come up.
* SLMR 2.1a * If worst comes to worst, you *CAN* turn most things off.Same here, We don't discuss politics and if the one member in the minority tries to bait us with political tease or whine, we simply ignore him. He eventually either goes home or follows our conversation. It has worked wonders for us.
I'm rooting for the Fediverse. A sysop on a network I was on and one of our callers started identica and has worked on back-end protocols for
some time. He's been involved with ActivityPub recently, just wrote the book on it.
Adept wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
But reliably I want to control my stuff. But there's also a problem
that it'd be nice to have some amount of people _see_ the stuff, and, "just put it on my own server" isn't really useful for that. Sadly.
There's an acronym - POSSE - Publish on your own site, Syndicate
elsewhere. You control and own your content, syndicate it to an
audience, and control where/how it gets published elsewhere.
Wordpress has publishing tools available, so your content is
automatically syndicated - but stays on your server.
Adept wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
...though I'm not sure I want to deal with a Wordpress install. I guess I'm biased (fairly or not) toward thinking that it's pretty
heavyweight, and also connected to people who might not be reliably
lined up with my interests.
But I'm not even sure what content I want on the web. I tend to wind up with wikis that I mostly use for my own stuff, rather than as something
to share.
Theoretically I could write things that are more personal, but then I would want them in a restricted place, both semi-private and controlled
by me.
Without having a great idea on the content, it's hard to say what the proper tool is.
That said, I had enjoyed what Octopress looked like, for blogging,
though it seems to be abandonware, now. But Jekyl still exists, and
that seems lightweight and easy.
But probably doesn't easily do what you're talking about.
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It is a little heavy for a one-person blog, but most hosting companies
can turn it into a one-click install - they even supply additional
templates or an AI page maker.
I have a category on my blog called "Google Posterity" - for
information I'd found online that I didn't want to see dissapear.
Facebook killed it off with "Short Attention Span Theater", and it's a
shadow of its former self - as well as being hosted by a Russian
company, which is a little concerning. The software is open source, and
there are other instances of it running - Dreamwidth, for one.
Writing it made me realize something about the old blogosphere - we
didn't need a reason or a theme. Mine bounced between technical posts,
photos I'd taken, and personal updates. We didn't have "brands" back
then, or even know what we were doing.
See my earlier post - it's easier to amplify a lie through the
manipulation of social network feeds to the point where it
because accepted truth.
That does double-duty of forcing the opposition to debunk the lie, which takes energy from the spread of their platform.
I'm torn - I see Facebook and Twitter as a Convenient Evil, need to find
a way to minimize the negativity and falsehood.
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shutdown. I have never tried twitter, is it much better or worse?
Re: Re: Family vs Politics - Did
By: John Short to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Feb 13 2026 01:52 pm
Both are bad in their own ways. I just logged into Facebook for the first time in a while, and was shocked at how much AI slop there was. I'll need to go on a blocking binge there.
Twitter is bad in its own way - I thought it interesting that they turned on country of origin on posters. Bots are bus business on Twitter.
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John Short wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
I decided to skip twitter. Have fun with your blocking binge.
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