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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    1. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Oct 30

      I don’t plan on keeping my (Twitter, Inc.’s) Twitter account open for much longer so if you’d like to keep following me, check out my (really mine, as in I own and control it) Mastodon (https://mastodon.ar.al ) and get started with Mastodon athttp://joinmastodon.org 

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    2. Line Kierulf Dahl‏ @LineKDahl Oct 30
      Replying to @aral

      May I ask why?

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      Aral Balkan‏ @aral Oct 30
      Replying to @LineKDahl

      Short answer: https://www.bbc.com/ideas/videos/surveillance-capitalism-has-led-us-into-a-dystopia/p06p0tdy … Longer answer: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ztji5I3zvPE … Above are videos; for text: https://2018.ar.al/notes/the-nature-of-the-self-in-the-digital-age/ … https://2018.ar.al/notes/encouraging-individual-sovereignty-and-a-healthy-commons … https://2018.ar.al/notes/we-didnt-lose-control-it-was-stolen … :)

      8:18 AM - 30 Oct 2018
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        2. Line Kierulf Dahl‏ @LineKDahl Oct 30
          Replying to @aral

          So you don't trust Twitter?

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        3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Oct 30
          Replying to @LineKDahl

          I trust Twitter fully. I trust it to do what its funding and business model demands: to farm people, extract value from them, and to manipulate their behaviour for profit. #SurveillanceCapitalism

          1 reply 6 retweets 17 likes
        4. Nuria Giralt, PhD 🎗||*||‏ @Nuria_amb_seny Oct 30
          Replying to @aral @LineKDahl

          Do you think users get anything out of it?

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        5. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Oct 30
          Replying to @Nuria_amb_seny @LineKDahl

          Do you think livestock get anything from a factory farm? They get housed and fed. But to what end?

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        6. Line Kierulf Dahl‏ @LineKDahl Oct 30
          Replying to @aral @Nuria_amb_seny

          But you have 48k followers, you can just publish whatever content you are producing?

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        7. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Oct 30
          Replying to @LineKDahl @Nuria_amb_seny

          On Twitter/FB, the number of followers/“friends” you have is a meaningless statistic since they have algorithmic, not chronological timeliness. So they decide who sees & who doesn’t see what you publish. On Mastodon, I may have 4K people instead of 48K but they all get my posts.

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        8. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Oct 30
          Replying to @aral @LineKDahl @Nuria_amb_seny

          And that’s before we even get to quality vs quantity: The amount of meaningful engagements I have on the fediverse is far greater than has ever been the case on Twitter. YMMV, but I simply have a better quality of life engaging there rather than on this factory farm for humans.

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