[-] BallyM@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

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

[-] BallyM@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

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

[-] BallyM@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

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

35
submitted 3 days ago by BallyM@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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 3 points 1 week 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 5 points 1 week ago

Join a choir. Same connection.

[-] BallyM@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

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

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

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 3 points 3 weeks ago

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

39
[-] BallyM@lemmy.world 25 points 3 weeks ago

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

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

Kudos to Hochul and Mamdani. Child care costs are horrendous

BallyM

0 post score
0 comment score
joined 1 year ago