BallyM

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[–] BallyM@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (11 children)

What if you drink alcohol or use recreational drugs? You can still take the bus and won’t endanger anyone (unless you’re totally off your head). Drink/drugged drivers are a danger to everyone.

[–] BallyM@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Yeh, I see your point. But I think every app’s design also nudges us one way or another

[–] BallyM@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

By that definition, Wikipedia and Google Search are social media too

[–] BallyM@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Totally agree! I’ve also caught myself rehearsing snarky retorts while scrolling microblogging apps. I feel like a heckler there.

 

Setting aside Big Tech and surveillance capitalism for a minute — I wonder if fediverse microblogging apps like Mastodon aren’t fairly antisocial and inclined to individualism, while apps like Lemmy are more community and artefact/stuff-to-share centric.

People are complex, societies infinitely more so, but software can nudge us this way or that way too.

I’d be interested to hear what others here think.

[–] BallyM@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I wonder if it includes EU and US sanctions, such as those imposed on ICC staff and journalists for their work on Israel/Palestine

[–] BallyM@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Join a choir. Same connection.

[–] BallyM@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Leaking this proposal to the media on the day when Auschwitz was liberated is a bit on the nose.

[–] BallyM@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You’re right. It still feels more like a betrayal though when, say, a party which runs a campaign about peace and love turns out to be a psycho bloodsucking cheerleaders for genocide (eg the Greens).

[–] BallyM@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (9 children)

True. But Merz could never disappoint me. He’s doing what’s expected of him. The last German gov — now THAT was a disappointment.

 
[–] BallyM@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (12 children)

That’s rich coming from thus German gov. They enable the far right