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

[aesthelete@lemmy.world]

100000000% agree

[aesthelete@lemmy.world]

Is signal not good enough or something? I basically switched to signal.

[rottingleaf@lemmy.world]

I know what hobby project I'd want to lift, but I also know that I struggle with much simpler undertakings - like, for example, cooking something normal more than twice a week.

[openstars@piefed.social]

Humans seem not to be great planners - we are too short-sighted and selfish, but like in a bad way where we first lie to ourselves, and then also to one another.

This allows us to get out of local minima as we spread to new areas, but that same trait seems equally likely to lead to our extinction when all areas have been found and we need rather to switch to a more stablilzed society, yet won't bc we don't feel like doing so.

[aesthelete@lemmy.world]

Social media is doing everything in the establishment’s favor

For about half a second, people used social media to organize. Then the fascists saw how to manipulate and control it, and jumped at the opportunity. At this point social media -- especially corporate controlled social media -- is just part of the fascist apparatus.

To a lesser extent, as this article talks about, the coping mechanism of posting allows you to vent enough to prevent you from having the discomfort necessary to actually do anything. It's not nearly as harmful, but it's not good either.

[rottingleaf@lemmy.world]

Such situations would regularly arise till early XX century and even now, so, eh, humanity tries everything. I wouldn't assume I know a solution.

[openstars@piefed.social]

PieFed offers both, as well as most of the most heavily asked for features lacking from Lemmy (Categories of Communities, sign-up wizard asking for interests and subscribing to communities based on those answers, hashtags to facilitate cross-community discovery, etc.). Ironically it is the more foundational features (cross-posting, users tagging, comment previews, post searching) that it still lacks, but the point is that work is being done along the lines of what you said, even though I highly doubt that such will ever appear in "Lemmy" per se.

[menemen@lemmy.world]

I feel personally attacked, I agree with the article, but painfully so.

[bobs_monkey@lemm.ee]

these places are the last bastion.

That's what I mean? We need to cultivate and solidify our online sanctuaries, or at least methods of secure and private communication now, before everything goes full tits up, because, as you said, they will be all up in our business before we know it.

Like, I'm working on a solution to have someone "steal" my guns so I can file the police report relatively soon, as well as shoring up my servers/archives in the event that the internet becomes intermittent, including hosting a full copy of Wikipedia. I'm also looking into buying some ham radio equipment and speed running that learning curve. I hate to have a tinfoil hat on, but I'm fairly certain something between widespread civil disturbance, civil war, and the collapse of our country are right around the corner, and shit is about to get nasty real quick. The absolute most effective tools we'll have are communications and information.

[witten@lemmy.world]

It's good, but it's centralized. Let's say an authoritarian regime shuts down the central Signal servers. Then what?

[openstars@piefed.social]

Why read the article (especially if there's a paywall) when you can read - or even better make - the comments?

Seriously, if the goal is that sweet sweet dopamine fix, then this is the most efficient means to achieve that end...

Thinking is hard, hence just don't do it! Better yet, downvote those who do as being "pretentious".

It's far easier to talk rather than listen over others.

[auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Yeah there was still problems with the admins. But 95% of the problems people encountered were due to virgin subreddit mods.

[rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de]

Is this some copypasta?

[auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I wouldn't use any of those other features. I just browse by top all 1/6/12 hr (which piefed lacks) and the theme isn't great either.

How does it offer either of those things? I see an 'attitude %' on hover, and it says it has 'strong moderation tools'. But I mean 100% community run. Subscribers have to vote on bans or something. And proof of personhood verification tests.

[baggachipz@sh.itjust.works]

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.

[earthman@my-place.social]

@baggachipz @rimjob_rainer *shit furry

[reksas@sopuli.xyz]

i have been trying to look for any organization that would try to do something. I know i cant found anything like that myself so best i can do is support someone else. I have no idea where to even look or are there even such groups in my city or even country.

Only one i know of (extinction rebellion) are basically glorified facebook group(at least their local group, no idea how they are in general) that might occasionally do something that causes slight outrage and not even about the issue, just against them.

[reksas@sopuli.xyz]

any group that hopes to have any success or effect on anything should thoroughly plan for the eventuality status quo wants to put stop to them. You make very good point.

[reksas@sopuli.xyz]

that requires effort to move away from platforms that force you to doomscroll with their algorithm. For many people that is very strong chain. If you relinquish your mind its not easy to even see the reason to take it back on your own.

[reksas@sopuli.xyz]

in warhammer40k there was some saying about "armor of contempt" against influence of chaos. Imo, you need something similar against corporations to resist their shit.