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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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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the problem with this is that A LOT of people needs to do it. Personally I dont have any problems with trying to maintain my sanity by not reading about awful things or by treating tiktok like the plague it is. But so many are basically addicts and dont even want to hear anything about changing what they do or just plain dont care what you say to them.
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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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I love mastodon because its actual people I'm following, so I can see whats happening in their lives, in contrast to twitter, which just showed me constant outrage bait and shitposts.
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I've been lazy on Mastodon because I've been spending all my time on Lemmy ... I really should do more there in the future ... thanks for the reminder.
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Heh, same. The "subreddit" format is incredibly addictive.
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the problem with this is that A LOT of people needs to do it.
yeah, and they should, it's worth the time investment, or in this case, time gain.
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Yes it is, but how to make them understand it is
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Isn't federation just another version of moderation?
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No. It's how different instances share content with one another.
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look that's not my problem, you want to continue being glued to your screen and wasting your time on shit that's trivial and unimportant, be my guest, but i can more than assure anybody in the world that literally nothing will happen if you stop using social media. Just try it. It's literally free.
