Friends of the Rogue —they help Detroiters through the process

Every winter I end up having like 5-10 good conversations with new people.

Also from just a more liberatory perspective, that centralizes a lot of control over trending topics in a way that feels like a technocratic over-correction imo. What happens when we have the next national crises? How will those feeds respond & who decides?

Yes! I think those are great tools for more curatorial users who want to put alot of time + energy into curating their experience. Reminds me a bit of the Are.na app. Don’t think the casual user on a free app wants to do those things which creates a clear digital divide imo.

*exodusing but you get me

Hey thanks! Hopefully it’s something gentle amidst everyone’s urgency rn

Absolutely!

Last thought (my b) but if our opposition is imperceptible to us, much will be co-opted/lost. I’d be interested in seeing how foreign policy, radical-progressive thoughts are discussed on this app. That will tell us a lot about its intentions.

What happens when we have the next crisis? Or moment where folks collectively need to connect & identify how to help. Some features on this app could help with that but I don’t think community is ease. It often necessitates disagreement.

I think that’s actually my concern. Maybe this is just my pov as a community organizer, but If we make our online spaces inflexible and too apetizing, we forfeit alot of opportunities for real education/action. It’s anti-social in the sense that it runs the risk of conflict aversion

I think folks are noticing that this app is incredibly anti-social but can’t yet articulate it. Opposite extreme of an app like X that keeps folks using it via constant agitation. Ppl want a safe, more interconnected experience but this app isn’t in position to provide that.

Could absolutely see how neoliberal politics & technocrats could hide from the public on this app. X is centered around agitation to keep you logged in whereas this app has no agitation at all. Means this is neither an effective educational nor organizing tool. It’s just a shiny new thing.

Like, ppl have to brand + market themselves to have any value/dignity in the workforce and we never reeled it in. This app strikes me like a sobering progression of that reality whereas X is now anti-information & nihilistic. They’re both two very different reactionary extremes in my opinion.

Will take a sec but from the late 2010s there’s:
- “Get you” by Daniel c
- Like half of ctrl
- “Thank you next” since everyone knows it
- “daddy’s lessons” (already one)