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Why I just left reddit.
- Subject: Why I just left reddit.
- From: dreamingforward at gmail.com (\0xDynamite)
- Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2017 19:27:39 -0400
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> Is microblogging actually useful for anything? Is it conduce to
> conversations, to receiving headline news at least 15 seconds before my
> favourite alt-news website, or to making a cup of coffee for me?
Microblogging should have helped start a planetary shift, but maybe it
will be useful after one.
> The real question is whether there is a decent transition plan to
> encourage normies to get off their proprietary addictions onto something
> better, freer, with rainbows and kicking savannah Gnus attached?
There is a transition plan, but apparently no one's started yet. I
made a page for [[ignite]]ing one at wiki.hackerspaces.org. It paves
the way to start the snowball rolling downhill, so far, no one's
started.
> Many questions, not many answers yet...
Much impatience. It's like being a racehorse trained to win, only
having to spin hamster wheels waiting for the gates to open.
Unfortunatley, I'm not a gatekeeper. Anyone know one?
\0xd