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0 pointsdfxm122y ago0 comments

Online or offline has nothing to with doing it yourself or not. Social media, websites, etc. makes organizing events, people, projects incredibly easier and more inclusive.

Punk isn't sitting over a xerox machine for a few hours printing flyers. It is actually putting a (music, performance art, benefit, whatever) event together at an all ages venue in a town where live nation owns all the venues and keeps shows 21+ so they can make money on booze. Doing stuff yourself is easier with the Internet.

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ethbr12y ago· 1 in thread

It's a slippery slope though, because the corrosive effect of the attention economy trying to skew social platform interactions to their benefit.

Some platforms are less aggressive about it, some more, but they all control their own levers of power and to some degree abuse them.

E.g. Facebook Marketplace being locked into an identity in the rest of their ecosystem

So absolutely, use efficient tools to do more, but also be aware of the opinions and intent of those tools, and what they're trying to do to you.

cykros2y ago

Facebook is the modern day equivalent of AOL. It's where people are kept corralled to keep the rest of the Internet fun.

The problem is, there's a lot more AOL-like platforms these days, to some degree or other. IRC has turned mostly vacant. Perhaps there's greener pastures in the Matrix space, because Discord is pretty hit or miss, always with the understanding that the great eye in the sky might smite the server at any moment.

pjmorris2y ago

Fair. I'm a big fan of 'Our Band Could Be Your Life', Azerrad, but I've only read it. It sounds like you, or people you know well, are living it out.

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