Post #1050594

2026-04-10 18:33 UTC

One of the things I like about the fediverse, as a concrete network of real people, is that you all tend to at least recognize the actions of power. Not perfectly, and not universally. But on average, you can see the outcome of some exercise of power, and then point back to the power that produced it. This means that things don't seem like inevitable, uncontrollable, acts of nature to you. You can imagine a different outcome than the one we got, even if you don't know how to bring it about. And oh my god is that refreshing. It's something that I have found in zero other places.

Replies (11)

@janl@narrativ.es 2026-04-10 19:02

@jenniferplusplus 😘😘

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@dagb@snabelen.no 2026-04-10 19:23

@jenniferplusplus as a Human ethicist it was perfect util the last sentence. I know it ia just every day speech but there is no god determining our future. We determine the future 😏

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@rachel@transitory.social 2026-04-10 19:44

@jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io yeah. That can lead to a bit more acute strife, but that is largely because the people responsible for moderation/etc are real people that can be interacted with, instead of a massive faceless corporation that makes opaque decisions and is essentially untouchable

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@GeePawHill@mastodon.social 2026-04-10 20:51

@jenniferplusplus It's not a perfect place, and I am well aware of a variety of ways it is not. But it is a better place than any I've seen since Usenet. It's . . . *good*. Oddly good. Surprisingly good.

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@nicolai@babka.social 2026-04-10 21:35

@jenniferplusplus Nobody here who has *no* understanding of politics. Different ones, but nobody without it

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@KeithWM@mastodon.social 2026-04-10 22:06

@jenniferplusplus I'm not sure if I get what you're saying.

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@flipper@mastodonapp.uk 2026-04-10 22:21

@jenniferplusplus we made this world, we can make it however we want. Nothing is inevitable.

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@FrutigerAero00@mastodon.social 2026-04-10 22:35

@jenniferplusplus true! Never thought about that but now that you mention it, i can compare when I was active on other social media! Like, the news were sort of "this big problem is happening and is terrible!" and here is more like "this big problem is happening because of this and these people and this philosophy and this structure" and I dunno, maybe its just that the people that think similar just reunited here on mastodon (eco chambeeer 😂)

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@muddle@infosec.exchange 2026-04-10 23:25

@jenniferplusplus I think that another way of looking at this might be to say that we have an unusually high number of people here who understand power and recognise its application, but who just aren't that interested in wielding it themselves. And I think that's probably true. Calling out abuses of power kind of falls naturally out of our attitude to power in the first place?

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@numodular@c.im 2026-04-12 18:05

@jenniferplusplus Ponder this for a moment... What if #BehavioralScience were #CoreEducation?..

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@disorderlyf@todon.eu 2026-04-13 16:50

@jenniferplusplus A lot of neurospicy computer touchers here

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