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

[finitebanjo@lemmy.world]

Ah man, you were making progress, too. Almost had half of a good argument.

[quazar@lemmy.world]

which is why i refused to pay for tv/movies. I refused to spend my hard earned money on their "circus"

[dasus@lemmy.world]

So that's a "yes, I am going to obstinately pretend that making literally the whole world speak about something does not mean anything and can't even be called an achievement"?

Aww. It's gonna be hard to get anyone to think anything you say matters when you don't believe that speaking doesn't mean anything. ;>

[quazar@lemmy.world]

People even knowing their next door neighbors NAME is leaps and bounds ahead of where we are right now.

[rooty@lemmy.world]

The revoltion will not be televised - Gill Scott Heron

[rottingleaf@lemmy.world]

Even people agreeing with this are wary of any revolution which is not in some way being televised. And more trusting to television than to what they can see with their own eyes.

[rottingleaf@lemmy.world]

They have done the same to liberals, just in a different way. Why do the harder thing when the easier thing is just as good? Most liberals already believe bullshit just as convenient for Trump.

How you support or not support an idea is not less important than what is that idea.

[beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org]

The US has experience being beaten by smaller, poorly-armed forces.

[tehdastehdas@lemmy.world]

The blame can be placed accurately: https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-modern-computer-look-and-feel/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

[drworm@lemmy.world]

They're dozens of us.

[golden_zealot@lemmy.ml]

There is another way - if it’s in your power, don’t obey the regime in any way.

Can you please cite a historical event anywhere in the world from any time in history where this was done and worked?

Thanks.

[balder1991@lemmy.world]

What I mean is that there’s a whole different world of how you make an app usable on a mobile phone with portrait screen and a website that’s displayed on a big screen. Many remaining forums I’ve seen from the past were built for a different time, with outdated designs and no good usability on a vertical-based screen.

Now, I’ve seen something line the Swift and Rust forums that do look good on mobile, simple and aesthetically pleasing.

About apps, they’re not necessary indeed, but for many services it’s an assurance that the usability was thought for that environment. For example, the only reason I do enjoy browsing Lemmy is because of the Voyager app that resemble the defunct Apollo for Reddit and copied all the good usability of it for iOS. If it wasn’t for the apps people built for Lemmy, I’d probably not have much drive to come back to it often.

[golden_zealot@lemmy.ml]

I am trying to get people I know personally to stop posting and reading and instead begin to focus on the very basics of actual organization, in the form of simply being able to communicate effectively and securely.

I have collected and written up information for them with the consideration that they are non-technical, pertaining to secure and private communications primarily, but also many more potentially useful emergency-scenario information and data which I will not speak about here.

The package I have started giving to my friends contains information such as:

• How to communicate securely using something like Simplex or I2P
• How to correctly configure and use a VPN
• How to flash a security distribution of Linux such as TailsOS to a flash drive and how to boot to it from a computer
• How to securely encrypt data to a device using an encryption software with hidden volume features such as VeraCrypt
• A litany of manuals for all kinds of useful information you can use in emergencies, which I will not detail here
• Files containing the data required to build potentially useful items in emergencies given access to the correct hardware which I will not detail here

I firmly believe that the majority of Americans will not do anything until someone is actually showing up at their door, coming after them in the street, or destroying the regularities of their personal day to day life, so my intention is to disseminate materials which they can turn to when the fear sets into them well enough that they are scared to talk about such things openly.

It is clear to me that most of my American friends at least, at this point, still only feel superficial fear and outrage. The other day I asked them "If you had to vandalize a public space with a piece of art, what would you draw or paint? Let's say it is the side of a bank".

One said "tits", one said "flowers", one said "a fox".

Even in a fantasy, they would not express fear or outrage in a public setting.

[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.