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WTSocial: Alternative to Facebook is Announced by Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia

Post author:Erich Vieth
Post published:November 16, 2019
Post category:American Culture Community Internet Social Media
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Jimmy Wales' (founder of Wikipedia) has a new project, WTSocial

I'm going to presumptively speak for "the World" here: The World is ready for an alternative social gathering spot that respects users' privacy, discourages acrimony and tamps down hard on misinformation. I'm an early financial supporter because I really want this project to take off. This will be a fundamentally different business model than Facebook in that it will be funded through user donations. Here's are a few excerpts from a Financial Times article about WTSocial:

“It won’t be massively profitable but it will be sustainable,” [Wales] said . . . Wales said he believes the time is now right for a new venue that is free from what he calls “clickbait nonsense”. “People are feeling fed up with all the junk that’s around,” Mr Wales said.

Regarding his goals for numbers of users, Wale stated: “Obviously the ambition is not 50,000 or 500,000 but 50m and 500m.”

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On Being Primed For Worse

Post author:Mark Tiedemann
Post published:November 25, 2014
Post category:Aggression and Violence American Culture Bigotry Civil Rights Communication Community Court Decisions Culture Current Events Economy Education History ignorance Law law and order Law Enforcement Abuses Media Politics Saint Louis Social justice Social Media Violence
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Haven’t we been gearing up for some kind of O.K. Corral showdown pretty much since the announcement that there would be a grand jury? Haven’t we been gearing up for some kind of O.K. Corral showdown pretty much since the announcement that there would be a grand jury? Sure looked like we expected what we got. [More . . . ]

Just Talkin’ Here

Post author:Mark Tiedemann
Post published:August 4, 2014
Post category:Communication Community Cultural Evolution Culture Internet Language Media Social Media Writing
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One of the more congenial things about FaceBook is that while flaming (and trolling and all such related hate-baiting tactics) still happens, users aren't locked into the thread where it occurs. With multiple conversations going on all the time among many different arrangements of "friends" it is not a problem requiring something like a nuclear option to deal with.

Duck (And Cover…)

Post author:Mark Tiedemann
Post published:January 4, 2014
Post category:advertising American Culture Censorship Communication Consumerism Culture Current Events First Amendment Media Protests and Actions Social Media
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By now those who don’t know about Phil Robertson and the debacle at A & E are most likely among those who have no access to any kind of media. They have no idea what the world is doing, because they have no way of knowing what to pay attention to. [More ... ]

Military Voting Philosophy

Post author:Dan Klarmann
Post published:August 16, 2012
Post category:advertising American Culture Censorship Civil Rights Communication Current Events Fraud History ignorance Military Orwellian Patriotism/Nationalism Politics Propaganda Social Media
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I remember the presidential election of 2004, during which the armed services were flooded with the message that it was seditious to speak out against your Commander in Chief, and certainly bad to consider voting against your own commander. Luminaries of the time like Ann Coulter published the principle that anyone who casts doubt on ones president is a traitor. This was a solidly accepted conservative plank. But the message fed to members of the armed forces has changed for the 2012 election: This image has been going around on Facebook, among other sources. I suspect that the message they receive about their Commander in Chief is different than before. There also is a busy meme insinuating that Democrats are busily working to deny military members their right to absentee vote. Does this mean that the military is a Republican organization? Or does it cleave to one of the Three Tea Party branches?

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