You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism | Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them
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Funny, I find this in my doomscroll app. I just want out, man
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Idk. Ban from communities after negative karma threshold with an automatic vote weighted by users subreddit karma to appeal? Just the first thing that popped to mind though sure there’s better ways. Matrix was working towards something iirc last i checked.
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If that was in place you could get banned from all of lemmy for saying that but it wouldn't even have to come from a mod just someone with enough free time to make a couple thousand accounts. I personally like the way one of the discords im in does it where it is basically a draft from the mod team to be head mod and leads to significantly less power tripping because they will be gone in the next month.
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Hence weighted by reputation.
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You're welcome
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No problem
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You pay mods and make them have rules.
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Then there's nothing unique about open and decentralized social media.
The technology where I could "start my own server" has always existed.
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Right, but getting people to actually know it exists is the problem. That's why federated decentralized media is a good thing.
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If you (rightfully) believe that, then any place blocking you isn't somewhere you want to be, anyway.
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Huh, why? Because of shit management?
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it requires effort for sure, but even if you don't want to permanently do it, just spend like a week, without using tiktok or something.
It's worth it. At least let yourself understand both worlds fully.
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You are right, but you are just missing an important ingredient: a physical community.
It's quite easy for autocrats and gangs to isolate and eliminate loners.
And as for the communities, there is a hierarchy. Police officers and soldiers have no hesitation to eliminate gangs and terrorists. That's their job.
They will have a little more hesitation to attack civil organisations, e.g. sports clubs, political parties and trade union places. But eventually, if someone tells them that terrorist activities were being undertaken, they'll just follow orders. The way this is done is by getting people unfamiliar with the community to come in and do the dirty job.
They will have the most hesitation to attack religious places of their own religion. Many of the grunts tend to still be religious/superstitious.
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Ah gotcha. Yeah my entire purpose for such means of communication is directly for the purpose of supporting a physical community via ease of digital communication, as well as maintaining communication with the wider world to stay on top of what's happening outside of our local community.
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Heh, same. The "subreddit" format is incredibly addictive.
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Yes it is, but how to make them understand it is
