All this talk about war plans and my initial thought was:
I'm impressed they used Signal. I would think these assholes would be using Facebook Messenger or something.
Big Tech is so fucked.
I was looking for some information about turntable stuff, and it brought me to Reddit. A search result brought me to a relevant post. I read a couple of others. Then my feed showed a "Here's my listening room, my wife hates it, but I love it" post. I read it. That led to a "My setup after a divorce" post. And in my algorithmic feed I started getting some similar, still turntable related, but also slightly more in the direction of these guys having a hard time because of a wife, or ex-wife, or a girlfriend or whatever. I read a couple that actually seemed to be about the topic at hand. But quickly... straight up woman hate posts from groups not at all related to vinyl. It's like Reddit was just waiting for the chance to get me on the path of women hate, and it found a way there.
Now I understand how men online can get indoctrinated so easily. You can go from reading about turntable slip mats to hating women in less than an hour. But each step is small enough where you get pushed along, you can justify it because of all these one-sided rants you've just read about how awful women have been.
I'm assuming the same thing happens with politics or other very divisive topics.
We're in a horrible place. I know a lot of you think Reddit is the one exception to "all big tech is bad", but let me tell you, I'm seeing that it's not.
How many people do you know that don't use Gmail for their email? I bet a large number of you don't know anybody who doesn't use it.
Just a reminder that this is a huge problem.
It's come to the point where I don't feel comfortable sharing Owncast streams on the Owncast Fediverse account anymore because it has enough followers where the Mastodon DDoS (hug of death) creates problems. If you think it's a problem for not real-time content like blogs, it's a critical problem with real-time video. I've been trying to improve it over time, but I think I'm going to have to really start locking things down.
