From @_elena: "I have come to see the #Fediverse as the equivalent of organic, plant based, home-cooked meals and by contrast I see TikTok, Instagram, X, Threads, Snap and other platforms by Big Tech as the equivalent of Big Food – brands like Coca Cola, McDonalds, Nestlé, that promote ultra-processed, highly addictive foods and beverages, contributing to an epidemic of obesity, type 2 diabetes and other diet-related diseases."
https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-new-way-to-describe-the-fediverse-and-its-opposition-to-big-tech/

Cory Alexander is to Cris Collinsworth as #ACC basketball commentary is to #NFL commentary. Horrible. #analogies

As the guinea pig of time meets the the celery stick of destiny I find my Sunday is in its final hours and the light of myopic wandering becomes the unlit path to the fumbling key in the lock of impermanence.
May your Sunday be / is / was a calming experience. #Sunday #analogy #analogies #what?

To paraphrase #GeorgeBox, all #analogies are wrong, but some are useful.

Lot of folks involved in the #FediverseSearch discussions get really hung up on the VERY SPECIFIC DETAILS of their analogies. It's not a coffee shop or a pedestrian zone, it's a social network. It's literally unlike any of the things folks are analogizing with.

at my own place, re upping a piece on #Holocaust #analogies. ugly Holocaust analogies are ugly. but it's important not to ban comparisons altogether, or we use the Holocaust as a warning and a lesson. https://noahberlatsky.substack.com/p/the-pros-and-cons-of-holocaust-analogies

If someone said that Myrtle Beach was like Dollywood on the Atlantic or that Dollywood was like Myrtle Beach in the Mountains, would you grok it?