Brutkey

"Miss Movie Masochist"
@socketwench@masto.hackers.town

The Twin Cities used whistles and cameras and made a giant flinch.

Only a flinch, not a fall.

But a flinch nonetheless.

Never forget that.

"Miss Movie Masochist"
@socketwench@masto.hackers.town

"If we cannot take our hearts to the stars, we do not deserve to go at all."

"Miss Movie Masochist"
@socketwench@masto.hackers.town

'Wench, why are you boosting just to apply a CW?"

Because I have friends who specifically asked for a CW on this and similar content, and I care about my friends.

"Miss Movie Masochist"
@socketwench@masto.hackers.town

I watch normal things.

"Miss Movie Masochist"
@socketwench@masto.hackers.town

The Twin Cities used whistles and cameras and made a giant flinch.

Only a flinch, not a fall.

But a flinch nonetheless.

Never forget that.

"Miss Movie Masochist"
@socketwench@masto.hackers.town

"If we cannot take our hearts to the stars, we do not deserve to go at all."

"Miss Movie Masochist"
@socketwench@masto.hackers.town

'Wench, why are you boosting just to apply a CW?"

Because I have friends who specifically asked for a CW on this and similar content, and I care about my friends.

"Miss Movie Masochist"
@socketwench@masto.hackers.town

I wouldn't say this study is "bad". It certainly is interesting and feels it has a mark of truth on it from my experience.

No network I've been on, LiveJournal, MySpace, Facebook, Pownce, Twitter, Fedi, BlueSky is free of these issues.

None. Of. Them.

They all end up replicating the same social patterns no matter how we try to tech the social dynamics away.

"Miss Movie Masochist"
@socketwench@masto.hackers.town

So, when the kids up and split for the next network saying, "it doesn't have any of those problems!"

Oh, yes it does. The "New Relationship Energy" hasn't worn off yet.

Just wait. The shit will come. It always does; the tech won't solve it.

"Miss Movie Masochist"
@socketwench@masto.hackers.town

A few points:

Yes, this study did you AI agents. That can cast some doubt on the results as AIs aren't humans, but that does mitigate some of the ethical issues these kind of studies usually entail (yes, I'm looking at YOU U of M.)

The study is trying to foster "non-partisanship" and "democracy", which...is not what a lot of people use social media for?

The study also doesn't factor in minorities or baseline societal bigotry. Another reason many turn to social media instead.

"Miss Movie Masochist"
@socketwench@masto.hackers.town

I wouldn't say this study is "bad". It certainly is interesting and feels it has a mark of truth on it from my experience.

No network I've been on, LiveJournal, MySpace, Facebook, Pownce, Twitter, Fedi, BlueSky is free of these issues.

None. Of. Them.

They all end up replicating the same social patterns no matter how we try to tech the social dynamics away.

"Miss Movie Masochist"
@socketwench@masto.hackers.town

Having been around since LiveJournal, this isn't surprising at all:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/study-social-media-probably-cant-be-fixed/

"Miss Movie Masochist"
@socketwench@masto.hackers.town

A few points:

Yes, this study did you AI agents. That can cast some doubt on the results as AIs aren't humans, but that does mitigate some of the ethical issues these kind of studies usually entail (yes, I'm looking at YOU U of M.)

The study is trying to foster "non-partisanship" and "democracy", which...is not what a lot of people use social media for?

The study also doesn't factor in minorities or baseline societal bigotry. Another reason many turn to social media instead.

"Miss Movie Masochist"
@socketwench@masto.hackers.town

Having been around since LiveJournal, this isn't surprising at all:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/study-social-media-probably-cant-be-fixed/

"Miss Movie Masochist"
@socketwench@masto.hackers.town

Going after vaccines isn't only foolish.

It's strategy:

They really believe their superior white USian genes will protect them an all the "lesser" peoples will die.

It's neglect with the intention of genocide.

"We need to stop this!" you say.

Let me ask:

Are you still masking?

Because your disabled friends sure as shit notice if you are or not.

"Miss Movie Masochist"
@socketwench@masto.hackers.town

Trying to figure out if it makes more sense to use a "cloud gateway"/hardware firewall right after the fiber modem to segment the network, or if I should just rely on pro-sumer grade Wifi AP and use port based VLANs.

Ugh. I'm not furry enough for this amount of networking.

"Miss Movie Masochist"
@socketwench@masto.hackers.town

The hardware firewall sounds like it'd be better for security, since it would segment everything at the source.

However, I worry about it bottlenecking the whole network since I'm broke as hell and can only afford garbage most of the time.

Not to mention it would introduce an extra step in the restart procedure in the event of a power outage.

"Miss Movie Masochist"
@socketwench@masto.hackers.town

Trying to figure out if it makes more sense to use a "cloud gateway"/hardware firewall right after the fiber modem to segment the network, or if I should just rely on pro-sumer grade Wifi AP and use port based VLANs.

Ugh. I'm not furry enough for this amount of networking.