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#ThoughtProvoker :blobhyperthink:

Don't let the doomscroll get ya. Turn thinking upside down, shift perspectives. 🌈

We have GREAT OPPORTUNITY now, thanks to #BigTech and #AI❗

#CommonsUnite 💪

Let's grab this chance. Help bring #Humanity back by our #commons based efforts. We can #CocreateOurFuture and provide to #society as a collective. ✊

Talking biz terms: Huge market niche is wide open. To offer real human-to-human connection. 😍

Supported by a true #SocialWeb. 💞

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social.coopjust small circles 🕊 (@smallcircles@social.coop)Attached: 1 image Our opportunity is demonstrated in this great cartoon. (source unkown, found via @carnage4life@mas.to)

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We rightfully revile Silicon Valley style techbroism as we take moral higher standpoints, stick to our values.

Yet in our total rejection of #techbro culture, do we fail to learn from it? SV outperforms #FOSS under #hypercapitalism. #BigTech is winning. We must improve our fitness formula to catch up.

Is where SV #culture differs that folks from across the globe totally dare to unleash creativity? While fedi sees ideas usually followed with techies-impl-talk?

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Don't you sometimes get exasperated when witnessing so many of the discussions on creating a better fedi, that deal with crazy technical bandaids for the wrong tools we built. Microblogging sticky note exchange.. and how do we feature-add to that until it supports society? Isn't that the ultimate Golden Hammer anti-pattern, really?

If a peopleverse is where online technology serves people's needs in their daily lives, can we we imagine one? Can we evolve that?

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Othering. Fascists do it. To create distance between groups of people. To make us not see each other anymore. This alienation lends them power.

At social coding commons Sirius posted his article "Do we need new #SocialMedia?" (in German)

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It occurred to me we must avoid othering at all levels. To increase 'social bandwidth'.

And that starts with avoiding the word "User".

We aren't users! And advertisement giants shouldn't administer global society!

Bildung - Mensch - MedienBrauchen wir neue soziale Medien? Zur Aktualität eines Internet-Memes  Im Juni 2013 schreibt ein Satz deutsche Internetgeschichte. Auf einer Pressekonferenz verkündet Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel folgenschwer: „Das Internet ist für uns alle Neuland” (Nagel 2013). Vor allem für Internet-affine Menschen deutete...

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In an analogy to cell biology, does #FOSS represent primordial soup? Or does it form organisms, with organs and skeletons that evolve? Is it maybe even an intelligent organism, aware of the world? Is a single FOSS project an autonomous cell, involved in protein exchange with its environment to sustain itself? Or is more like RNA viral matter, used for good and bad purposes, gratis. #sx

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There is the well-known saying "if you only have a hammer, then everything looks like a nail".

We find this quite obvious, and think people who fall for this anti-pattern are foolish.

Yet here we are in our #hypercapitalism-encased little global world, measuring *everything*, all value, every transaction in monetary terms.

How is that not the bluntest, dumbest hammer, and most ignorant way to misperceive value of life?

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We need #NuancedActivism that can pull people gently by the shirt timely enough to bring them back into the fold of #CivilSociety where #truth and #CriticalThinking can be nurtured again.

What we have is #RepellentActivism that puts a hot iron to anyone acting suspicious, and ensures they're so hurt never to return.

Repellent #activism is loved by #extremists both on the left and right as it feeds into voracious #PuritySpirals and suck more people into deep #radicalisation.