serious mental illness characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions
Example:
looking at the problem we have with Big Tech and saying “yes, this is fine!”
Absolutely nobody here is doing that. Nobody in this entire comment section has said anything close to that. Car dependant infrastructure and fossil fuels are bad but you still have to get in your car and go to work if you want to not die.
You realize there are thousands of email platforms not owned by Big Tech? You could even host your own.
Gmail is 30% of global email traffic. It doesn’t matter what platform I choose, my message is still going to end up in someone’s Gmail inbox and stolen by AI.
If I was taking that problem seriously I would at least cut out Apple, Gmail and Microsoft domains and automatically lose 84% of my mailing list. Why don’t you care about that?
Sure, why not? Again, there are thousands of alternatives. You can even host it on your own hardware.
Why not should be obvious: the NYC Mayor’s office isn’t in the market of building, hosting, operating or managing social media platforms. Full stop. That takes money, time, marketing and expertise and provides zero value to his constituents beyond performative fuzzy feelings.
If you’re so smart and righteous what’s stopping you from building your own platform for these politicians? Why the fuck should Mamdani have to do it? And make sure to build up 240 million MAU while you’re at it, this has to compete with Twitch’s reach.
LOL you don’t need a “datacenter”.
Well shit somebody call up Amazon and let them know! This genius has figured out a way to host an interactive live streaming service scalable to millions of simultaneous users from his closet.
Let me tell you about this thing called email…
See my comments above, you’re sacrificing your own privacy and feeling sanctimonious about it. Snail mail has far stronger legal and physical protections than your email.
You say that like FedEx, DHL, UPS, etc. don’t exist.
You. You are doing that. You’re telling me that he shouldn’t consider a different platform, he should continue generating revenue for Bozos, and that any other option is “psychotic”. I don’t know how you possibly form an argument otherwise.
Gmail is 30% of global email traffic. It doesn’t matter what platform I choose, my message is still going to end up in someone’s Gmail inbox
Why does that matter? You can make that choice for yourself, as can Mamdani. He cannot control other people’s actions (unless by law), but he van 100% control his own.
Why not should be obvious: the NYC Mayor’s office isn’t in the market of building, hosting, operating or managing social media platforms. Full stop.
My response should also be obvious; they are also not “in the market” of running Twitch livestreams. He can elect to do that regardless.
That takes money, time, marketing and expertise and provides zero value to his constituents beyond performative fuzzy feelings.
It provides a platform that his constituents can follow and engage with him on that isn’t owned by the broligarchy, and doesn’t require them to subject themselves to all the horrific things billionaires make them do. Again, this should be super obvious to anyone with an absolute modicum of sense.
Well shit somebody call up Amazon and let them know!
Holy shit, do you really think Mamdani is going to have the fucking entirety of Twitch watching his livestream simultaneously? Did you think about this before you blurted it out at all? Do you know anything at all about hosting infrastructure? Jesus Christ…
If you’re so smart and righteous what’s stopping you from building your own platform for these politicians?
…money? Money they have and I don’t? You call me a troll but you sure act like a paid actor sent to come here and ask stupid questions.
Why the fuck should Mamdani have to do it?
He shouldn’t. He doesn’t. He also doesn’t have to live stream at all. Short of those answers, because no one else is?
but don’t care about these corporate vultures?
I’m sure they’re all bad. You know what? There’s no alternative to them. Its a multi billion dollar business. You can’t say the same for Twitch. It probably wouldn’t even take $1k to set up a live streaming server that could handle Mamdani livestreaming levels of traffic.
Edit: “No alternative to shipping companies” but there’s somehow an alternative to reaching millions of people all on a single platform that they’re not leaving due to social inertia. Get on a bike loser, you can’t carry a package?
You need to educate yourself or keep your mouth shut. There are plenty of people who put a lot of time and effort into optimizing political engagement and weighing the pros and cons of all avenues.
400k people tuned in live to watch a one-off stream of AOC playing Among Us on twitch. 4.8 MILLION people watched the vod and that was nowhere near “all of Twitch”.
I want to see YOUR math on building a system that can do that with any consistency and then fit that into a mayor’s budget. Show me your road map to even sniff that audience size; where is your marketing spend going? Then on top of that, show me that there’s no better way to spend that money from the political war chest; explain how not generating a few pennies for Amazon is worth cutting N community outreach/charity events.
I’ll even help you out: we have a great comparison and it’s publicly traded so we know a bit about it. Truth social has about 6 million MAU, so we’re almost reaching that AOC Among Us scale (assuming they all engage with your stream). It took something like $5-$10M to stand up and costs $60M to operate every year. They ate a $31M deficit in their first year.
If you want a mayor to shell out that kind of money as a political stunt… I guess you must love millions of big-donor dollars that finance that kind of thing.
psychosis
noun
psy·cho·sis sī-ˈkō-səs:
serious mental illness characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions
Example:
Absolutely nobody here is doing that. Nobody in this entire comment section has said anything close to that. Car dependant infrastructure and fossil fuels are bad but you still have to get in your car and go to work if you want to not die.
Gmail is 30% of global email traffic. It doesn’t matter what platform I choose, my message is still going to end up in someone’s Gmail inbox and stolen by AI.
If I was taking that problem seriously I would at least cut out Apple, Gmail and Microsoft domains and automatically lose 84% of my mailing list. Why don’t you care about that?
Why not should be obvious: the NYC Mayor’s office isn’t in the market of building, hosting, operating or managing social media platforms. Full stop. That takes money, time, marketing and expertise and provides zero value to his constituents beyond performative fuzzy feelings.
If you’re so smart and righteous what’s stopping you from building your own platform for these politicians? Why the fuck should Mamdani have to do it? And make sure to build up 240 million MAU while you’re at it, this has to compete with Twitch’s reach.
Well shit somebody call up Amazon and let them know! This genius has figured out a way to host an interactive live streaming service scalable to millions of simultaneous users from his closet.
See my comments above, you’re sacrificing your own privacy and feeling sanctimonious about it. Snail mail has far stronger legal and physical protections than your email.
Lmfao you’re here to shit on Big Tech but don’t care about these corporate vultures?
Bro try trolling a little bit harder.
You. You are doing that. You’re telling me that he shouldn’t consider a different platform, he should continue generating revenue for Bozos, and that any other option is “psychotic”. I don’t know how you possibly form an argument otherwise.
Why does that matter? You can make that choice for yourself, as can Mamdani. He cannot control other people’s actions (unless by law), but he van 100% control his own.
My response should also be obvious; they are also not “in the market” of running Twitch livestreams. He can elect to do that regardless.
It provides a platform that his constituents can follow and engage with him on that isn’t owned by the broligarchy, and doesn’t require them to subject themselves to all the horrific things billionaires make them do. Again, this should be super obvious to anyone with an absolute modicum of sense.
Holy shit, do you really think Mamdani is going to have the fucking entirety of Twitch watching his livestream simultaneously? Did you think about this before you blurted it out at all? Do you know anything at all about hosting infrastructure? Jesus Christ…
…money? Money they have and I don’t? You call me a troll but you sure act like a paid actor sent to come here and ask stupid questions.
He shouldn’t. He doesn’t. He also doesn’t have to live stream at all. Short of those answers, because no one else is?
I’m sure they’re all bad. You know what? There’s no alternative to them. Its a multi billion dollar business. You can’t say the same for Twitch. It probably wouldn’t even take $1k to set up a live streaming server that could handle Mamdani livestreaming levels of traffic.
Girl try disinforming a little harder.
🤡🤡🤡
Edit: “No alternative to shipping companies” but there’s somehow an alternative to reaching millions of people all on a single platform that they’re not leaving due to social inertia. Get on a bike loser, you can’t carry a package?
You need to educate yourself or keep your mouth shut. There are plenty of people who put a lot of time and effort into optimizing political engagement and weighing the pros and cons of all avenues.
400k people tuned in live to watch a one-off stream of AOC playing Among Us on twitch. 4.8 MILLION people watched the vod and that was nowhere near “all of Twitch”.
I want to see YOUR math on building a system that can do that with any consistency and then fit that into a mayor’s budget. Show me your road map to even sniff that audience size; where is your marketing spend going? Then on top of that, show me that there’s no better way to spend that money from the political war chest; explain how not generating a few pennies for Amazon is worth cutting N community outreach/charity events.
I’ll even help you out: we have a great comparison and it’s publicly traded so we know a bit about it. Truth social has about 6 million MAU, so we’re almost reaching that AOC Among Us scale (assuming they all engage with your stream). It took something like $5-$10M to stand up and costs $60M to operate every year. They ate a $31M deficit in their first year.
If you want a mayor to shell out that kind of money as a political stunt… I guess you must love millions of big-donor dollars that finance that kind of thing.