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nowaypablo  ·  3764 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski: a thoughtful web?

I can feel how badly you're about to get shit on by some people on this site. However, I'm gonna try to be a little less reactive and offer a simple reason why you aren't accurate in what you're saying.

    in practice if enough narrow-minded pigs accumulate to grunt their message in harmony – what do they care what anyone else thinks?

That's one of the issues that became apparent to me when I first joined, and I saw it sort of as a formation of circles-- When we block out a range of things we dislike and the 'main' group more or less just follows each other, we completely isolate ourselves from anything else that might happen on Hubski. Hubski is a universe, and you're a planet that can swing through with some other planet homies and create a galaxy.

There's a really, really, really small chance that your galaxy will ever collide with anything else happening on Hubski because you mute everything new inbound that you dislike. So will your homies. What we're lucky to have on Hubski is one huge galaxy filled with all the 'power-users' and great content sharers and creators, and everyone else who views them. There aren't enough active users that disagree with each other to such a polar proportion where there is a separate community created that blocks out the first. We're not missing anything good that happens on Hubski. You might have black holes and other phenomena (see ahametals) that are some of the most active things on Hubski but comletely ignored and shut out of what we experience. I'm okay with that. it's how it works, there could be a thousand ahametals and they'll all be shut out even if they're the most active grunters on the site.

So when the screaming pigs start grunting together-- what do we care either?





coffeesp00ns  ·  3764 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    There's a really, really, really small chance that your galaxy will ever collide with anything else happening on Hubski because you mute everything new inbound that you dislike. So will your homies.

This is why I don't mute almost anything or anyone. You never know what kind of cool stuff you'll run into here.

bioemerl  ·  3764 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I stick to muting only those who mute me. Then I aggressively find the posts that I realized I was muted on and badge all the people disagreeing. Because fuck those who censor others.

_refugee_  ·  3764 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Isn't that kind of passive aggressive?

bioemerl  ·  3764 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes. It's hard not to be when you have no other options.

Aside from giving up and moving on, that is.

mk  ·  3764 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I for one, like ahametals. His mission might be narrow, but he is very considerate and replies when engaged. But, I agree with the point in general.

nowaypablo  ·  3764 days ago  ·  link  ·  

OK, you're right, ahametals hasn't hurt a soul and he's quite confusingly adorable in his comments. I was just using him as an example of a vagary in the Hubskiverse; doesn't deserve to be related to a pig though. Where's Yvesloren when you need to make a point.

Oh, right there.

user-inactivated  ·  3764 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Can't help but find this contrasted with this funny.

mk  ·  3764 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hilarious. I have posted things that I am almost ashamed of, just to see the hubwheel spin. Then again, the messenger matters. If minimum_wage were to post 10 exercises to save you from back pain at the office, I would probably share it just for the sake of irony.

user-inactivated  ·  3764 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You'll notice my title isn't a stupid, unprovable claim!

I WIN AGAIN

user-inactivated  ·  3763 days ago  ·  link  ·  

and DOUBLE the bridges. better bang for the buck. DOUBLE win

galen  ·  3764 days ago  ·  link  ·  

We don't escape bias just because we flock to Hubski. Something to keep in mind.

elizabeth  ·  3764 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, good example of the content I would filter because it's not what i'm interested in but I would not mute him because I see no use of blocking him on commenting on my threads (not that he will anyway).