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Compliance in advance is always the best strategy. Word of advice, maybe also try to be more masculine. See if you can combine that with obsequiousness!

NetBlocks: TikTok has deactivated its own service in the US [...] there are no indications of widespread network level restrictions imposed by internet providers at the present time.

Pictured to the right: TikTok itself as a self-portrait...
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@jwz I wish that, within the maelstrom that social media has become with its monopolization of our attention, that perhaps we might come to the conclusion that it isn't necessary and it's not worth it. We've all submitted in advance to it. We've decided that something so frequently inane, pointless, and stupid is absolutely indispensable. The existence of social media proved that an endless flow of excrement is possible. And yet we can not look away. People are not in charge of themselves.

"Social media [is] not worth it," he moans, on social media.

@jwz I will delete my Mastodon account right now (and all the posts going with it) if you say so to make my point I am serious about what I say. I really do not care about followers and that shit. You must make a decision: is Mastodon worth preserving? Would you be willing to tell a decent contributor to leave to make your point? I see the contradictions in social media, and I comment about them on social media. But if you tell me to leave, this is a place I don't want to be.

@profdc9 WTF are you on about?

Daniel Marks

@jwz I would like social media to not be a place that causes mass numbers of people to hate and vote against their own interests. So I comment on social media on social media. We have kids eating tide pods for christ's sake! I am not against Mastodon but social media has become dangerous and where else can one talk about it now? So if I can't even do that, I can't see the point.

@profdc9 Why are you yelling at me about this, please stop

@jwz Sorry, ok. Everyone's been about the TikTok thing lately, I don't see it as a big loss.