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the “company” side of things :— hiring practices, project management, openness and transparency regarding decisionmaking and governance, communication with users, participatory design methodologies, etc, etc —: these are the areas where every single social media platform has failed, not features

where are these things in the a§c manifesto? these very important not-software things?

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so no amount of trust in the current people running it is relevant. either they aren't worth your trust, or they are but will soon be outnumbered, or they will maintain a small team and have insufficient staff to deal with problems (making the question of trust useless)

the only merits you can judge it on are structural

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the only way around this is through abusive hiring/workplace dynamics which ensure that the people currently in power remain the ones in power even as the company scales

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cohost is worker-run, which means that the people making decisions today will be a minority of the people making decisions if it ever takes off

modernizing my language by calling all the ladies “wife-folk”

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is there a gender-neutral replacement for woman? like woperson or something? not all women are men 😡

*walks up to a pair of transbians* ok but which of you is the witch and which is the cleric

i cannot express how little interest i have for a website for online people to cultivate their online brands

me and my girlfriend watching chihayafuru: competition, or, to use the Marxist term, dialectic

gender is pretty cool when it’s optional

i cannot overstate how strong the “oh my god they’re fucking” vibes of this episode are

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today with my girlfriend we watched the pokémon episode about the lady who has sex with her piplup and croagunk

somebody make me a “i sleep / i wake” munchlax meme

kind of guy who wants to emulate WU but didn’t read the interview with Mark Rudd

the only things guns are good for is causing large amounts of damage at a distance longer than an arm’s length, and suicide

most people do not actually have a good reason for doing the first thing and we would like to prevent the second

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