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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have never met a woman named after her own mother⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know someone who has the same name as her mother, and her grandmother. They all lived in the same household. Imagine, you call her name and all three of them listen.

  I never understood this practice in general, regardless of gender. There are so many possibilities, sure it takes some creativity, but it’s not that hard, come on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to design a social media app or service that rather than focuses on farming engagement, it tries to promote quality content?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Possible, but better not make it. When an algorithm has to promote something, there’s bias behind it, whether it’s a good intent or not. Even if it’s all good content, some other, also good content might be missed, because the algorithm or the authority behind the algorithm misses it.

  In my opinion, Mastodon is perfect as it is. You see what you’re following. Or on the home page you see everything.

  People should really really really learn to seek for quality content and develop a sense for quality and also to exercise critical thinking while trying to separate quality content from garbage. Pick what you wanna see and don’t let yourself be influenced by a stupid algorithm.

  Just consuming whatever an app pushes into your face makes you a brainless zombie in the long term.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple CEO Tim Cook Donating $1 Million to Trump's Inaugural Fund⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I got the joke right away, I don’t think there’s any problem with it.

  The thing is, no matter how obvious a contradiction is, far-right folks won’t understand any of it, because they’re so dumb. You cannot give them even the most basic, easily digestible facts and explanations, because even that requires a brain, which they don’t have.

  So I think, these kind of jokes are perfectly fine for our entertainment, and no amount of facts and information will ever convince the dumbest of the people.