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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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.
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i think you are misuderstanding me. I dont use social media, unless you count using lemmy. I find facebook and xitter disgusting.
What I mean is that those who do use them need to understand its bad not only for them but whole society and that they should stop. But getting them to understand is the problem.
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no i understand perfectly what you're saying, it's just not your or my job to tell other people how to live their lives, if they want to ruin their lives, by all means they have the right to go and do it, but if you are going to listen to me, you better damn well take my advice because this should be paid. That's the point i'm trying to make.
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we've tried literally everything, nothing has worked, the only thing we can do at this point is be content in ourselves, try to offer people help when they need it, and laugh at those who perish by their own musings.
It's sink or swim, and if you aren't going to swim, you're going to sink.
