portello.bsky.social
Hong Kong, China, Indo-Pacific and APAC geopolitics
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There's surely some self-preservation into it, it's kind of the downside of electoral regimes. Prevents you from seeing the impopular but necessary choice as a viable solution without laying an astonishing amount of groundwork to explain and convince your population (+ your opposition jumping on it)
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Yeah came across that account too, there's also one on the "Xinjiang policewoman are so beautiful 😍" angle
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Also the neons, they spent their time trying to find ways to erase Hong Kong's identity, the core of what's make people want to come here and then can't put their head around people not wanting to come here anymore, it's really phenomenal
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Not a lot of toes left to shoot themselves in
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bruh
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pure bliss, enjoy it while it lasts
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I managed to tame twitter a bit by (ab)using mute-words, was pretty effective.
For a while at least, still need to go back to it once in a while when the new garbage discourse drops.
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Also, reddit is ass
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At least you've got it easy to curate this content
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Yup, this and networking with others and getting exposed to people they want to network with, interact with officials, etc.
It's very hard to move all those people at the same time to your garden even if the grass seem greener.
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If it existed once, it can exist again. Twitter wasn't sorcery, it did deliver and pretty well at that before it all went down the drain and sewer.
I don't think that's a big demand to ask from a microblogging/twitter-clone, it's kind of what it was made for originally afterall.
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Mostly using it to (try to) get exposed to important pieces of news now, but all the interaction about those topics is done on "groupchats" elsewhere. I find it much more healthy and gratifying.
There's no point interacting on twitter unless you're trying to push propaganda, it's way too noisy.
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yes
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I don't want fun, I want doom but interesting doom that will improve my world-understanding
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didn't know about those
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didn't know about that stuff
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yeah, but even if you do, it's still kind of a smorgasbord, not enough customization. It's basically a list.
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Well if I have to spend a 1000 hours building a curated timeline through carefully selected follows, lists, blocklists and keywords, I'm better off just reading the papers and stick to the groupchat with the boys.
If you remove the curation service, the social network loses all its interest.
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I managed to make the other place bearable but yeah that's the thing: the "interesting people" are still stuck there still, and will remain so until this place has become sufficiently big.
I thought video support would bring journos here but I guess they haven't crossed the rubicon yet.
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IG is probably the worst of all. No idea what the hell is meta doing there, everything is broken, it's 95% garbage.
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There can't be a perfect algorithm. But if you allow users to easily manipulate its variables to fine-tune in to their liking, you're on the right path.
"show me more/less of this" isn't anywhere close to "fine-tuning". It's like trying to balance a rock whose shape changes all the time.
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Ultimately it all comes down to content, so if it's still as vapid as a facebook meme group here, I won't stay around too much (until next time).
Discover-Timeline tuning is as grueling as I expected, hope it bears results soon.
Otherwise, life without any of those twitter-clones isn't so bad 😬
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you're not making it easy
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or maybe there is, will give it another go
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dunno, last time I was here was like 9 months ago and it quite sucked. I notice there's video support now which is great.
Still having to rebuild a timeline is annoying and the (apparently ?) absence of personal algorithmically curated content will only make it harder.
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Where do you think grayzone and OG "Palestine flag in the bio" tankies like partisangirl come from