Yeah, but Matrix has bridges for almost anything.

But then you are simply using Whatsapp with extra steps.

Did you read it till the end?

we should be doing something

Ok, let’s dive into it. What does “doing something” exactly mean? I’ve been into this since before I could vote, so I saw quite through it.

“Doing something” means a lot of different things for different people. Signing a petition, going to a march, writing on a wall, you name it. For some people “doing something” means sitting all day discussing about socialism and revolution in a living room. For others it is more biking together with Critical Mass against oil on weekends. There are those seeking small daily actions like recycling, and then there are the activist jumping on a boat with Greenpeace to save the whales, and the terrorists doing anything from damaging something to placing a bomb.

What does it mean for you “doing something”? Once you determine that, determine how much of that something would be adopted by the general population and what level of change could that reasonably achieve. I’ll anticipate the result of you exercise: the bigger is your something and the smaller will be the adoption, but the product in terms of impact will be always “very small”.

Take Occupy Wall Street to make an example. I loved the whole thing, I love the work of David Graeber, and it was a massive success, but what did they achieve in practice? The expression 99% entered in the general culture and there may be a bit more awareness of the problem of billionaires, but looking at cold metrics it was like a big storm, then the sun came back and a few days later the last puddle evaporated.

you argue that you are not going to do anything just out of spite all because OP personally may not be doing anything but their words are a bit preachy

Who said I’m not doing anything? OP said “You still work. You still buy. You still support the system.” to which I replied that I’m no more a naive 16 years old who shouts fuck the system and dreams to live off-the-grid avoiding the rat-race… and then goes back home to have dinner with mum.

If you are an adult and you want to go for it, be my guest! You may become Greta-Thunberg-famous, and people will follow you on social media. You will convince some people that, I don’t know, we should buy durable and reparable things to save the planet and fight consumerism. You will have an impact, albeit very small, and that will be a massive achievement if you dedicate your whole life to that.

Just, please, stop with idiotic replies accusing people to be enslaved in the system because it’s an insult to anyone who is currently looking for a solution for cancer, saving lives as a firefighter, building houses where people will live, growing crops, and even keeping up internet so people can praise the revolution against the machine from their bedrooms.

Of course. There are for sure women so stupid to go with a misogynist virgin prick.

After all, we live in a world where some Americans voted for Trump and got their families raided by ICE a few months later.

You’re asking the wrong guy. I don’t think it makes sense either even if I’m a (moderate) self-hosting guy.

Masturbating, I’m masturbating.

Wow! Do it in public fully naked with the reasons of the protest tattooed on your body. You may hit the news and reach lots of people!

I accidentally watched an interview to some right-wing incels, and I’d say that they were lonely because they fail as human being.

I suspect that women aren’t dating conservative men, not because they want to punish them, but because they would personally rather not date a horrible person.

Considering how many women remain in an abusive relationship, I’m not sure that conservative men have less chances.

Ping me when you changed the world with whatever you are actually doing behind that keyboard 👋

I selfhost since so long that some of my domains could vote, but I still need some “mainstream” channels to be reached by several people.

If we can argue that close friends will put extra effort to contact you on whatever you use, it’s also true that your landlord, the plumber, the chick you picked up last night, won’t give a shit and simply consider you a lunatic 99% of times if you tell them to use anything non-mainstream.

You still work. You still buy. You still support the system.

Of course, because I’m no more 16 arguing that a revolution is the solution.

All your friends are on a group chat and they will periodically mail you the updates. Sure, why not?

Good luck self hosting something to message your contacts.

Wow, your arguments are so solid! I’m totally convinced!

We have lost all sense of how to influence the world and all ability to gauge scale.

Absolutely correct!

I believe in “voting with your wallet” and I do little sacrifices to respect my ideas, but I’m conscious that I’m just one step above people clicking on petitions online in terms of impact.

Sure, why not?

Fast forward a couple of months:

• you lost contacts with 95% of your contacts you used to hear through apps. Last time you met a group of friends was when you randomly met them in a restaurant having a dinner together. “We invited you but you didn’t reply”. The 5% still calling you wants your money.

• your bank started charging an extra fee because you did not object when they notified a change in the contract via email. You missed a notification from the tax office and now you have to pay a small fine.

• your car cannot circulate anymore because you live in Europe and cities may ban old polluting engines.

• you read less because it started to be expensive to buy all those magazines. On the flip side you are more fit because you have to walk 2km to reach a place that sells them.

Ironically you just said that artists are wrong to be concerned.

maybe it’s cause the models are beginning to consume their own slop.

That’s going to be a huge issue indeed because synthetic data contains bias and it’s proven that produced biased models.

Absolutely correct.

One random example: where I work, CVs are being filtered by an AI before they are opened by a human reducing the volume to a 20% of potentially good candidates. In that 20% there is always someone to hire, so it doesn’t matter if a good candidate is lost in the AI filter. Failing to optimize the CV for AI literally means being left behind.

Hive mind.