I started an X account recently and the posts they put into my feed were the most intensely negative tweets and imagery I've ever seen interspersed with sports shit I also could not block. It didn't matter how many times I tried to block a certain kind of content another account posting the exact same thing would be in the feed. I didn't want to see basketball, Hitlerism, political tweets or Gaza gore yet that is all I was shown. I deactivated my account and checked out mastodon instead and the signup screen for that was blatantly censorious and would be like using twitter with annoying leftists instead. Where the hell do normal people hang out online to have a chat?
Imagining the kind of stuff swirling around the average twitter/mastodon users head is unreal. There must be radicalism beyond measure just beneath the surface ready to blow for every sort of group all across the world.
There is no "signup screen" for "Mastodon." It isn't a centralized platform like Twitter. You choose to follow specific instances or people - and normal people have political views (such as all of the politics in your comment, here.) If you don't want politics, don't follow politics, simple as. Unlike with Twitter, blocking actually works in the fediverse.
But honestly, if seeing one signup form was all it took to send you on a tilt about censorship and radical leftists? Stay on Twitter.
By the way I would hardly characterise myself as being 'on a tilt' in my post, I simply stated that mastodon was x.com but for the other side. Perhaps you are on a tilt and anyone level-headed appears as tilted?
I think this shows you just fundamentally misunderstood how Mastodon works. (Which, admittedly, is pretty common, since the onboarding is terrible.)
Those rules are all for mastodon.social, which is a specific server running the Mastodon Twitter-Like software. There exist countless other servers with their own sets of rules (one of which may be more to your liking) that you could join. No matter which server you join, you can generally interact (follow, reply, etc) with people on other servers.
But they also complain about having to see hitlerisms and gore??? Like do you want to see the child with half a head or not, I’m so confused.
Maybe they are just laboring under the misapprehension that you can somehow compartmentalize the two on the same platform and not inherently attract Nazis/gore-enthusiasts to your new gorehost/onlygore social media.
I wonder if there's an AI product/startup idea here. A personal AI firewall that aggressively curates social media content and only shows you content that benefits you (posts that are information dense, curious, and not angry), instead of benefiting the corporation or benefiting someone's ideological agenda by keeping you doomscrolling.
Anyways, I've been moderately happy with Bluesky. It's got an obvious left-bias (probably just due to a flight of left-leaning people from X), but it doesn't have racism, gore, porn, so I don't go away feeling down like I do after using X.
Russia is already trying to pin this on Ukraine, and doing a very sloppy job at it.
They claim that this van with a Ukrainian license plate was found near the attack. However, they blur out the country part of the plate and the remainder indicates Belarus.
Terrorists were caught trying to escape to the Ukraine, very close to the border. They were obviously linked to some people on the Ukrainian territory. Or at least they thought so. According to the public information, they got instructions from anonymous telegram account, so it could really be anyone.
There is zero evidence pointing to Ukraine, and ISIS has released video from the attackers.
But let's play along with the lunatic running Russia for a moment:
For them to cross into Ukraine, they would have required the cooperation of the Russian military on the Russian side of the Ukrainian border. So.. really?
Damn.. That guy in the linked images "anonymous giraffe" is 5'2 student with no job and no money. The image right before that is an Indian guy literally paying people $20 to be introduced to girls.
I would consider treadmills known to exist as early as 4000BC as an early step towards bicycles. Commonly used for grinding wheat or moving water - possibly even cranes. There both gearing and leg power interact - just gotta apply the force to a set of four wheels and you're halfway there.
There are a lot of seething and butthurt replies to you for some reason. Imagine the above but in regards to any other piece of technology.
"I use calculators in all my calculations now, and I'm really transparent about it. For $20, I now have a pocket calculator, and can at any time whip it out and calculate a long, difficult problem - and get a correct calculation based on my inputs just a few seconds later. Is there a single reason not to use it?"
Are the concerns in the other replies consistent with their own outsourcing of willpower & mental effort to technology?
The B61 is 3.56m long. I had to wonder if the internal bomb bays could fit something like that and found a pic on reddit with it tucked in with quite a lot of room to spare.
Imagining the kind of stuff swirling around the average twitter/mastodon users head is unreal. There must be radicalism beyond measure just beneath the surface ready to blow for every sort of group all across the world.