You Can Post Your Way Out of Fascism if You Own the Means of Posting
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I think you are underestimating the effect. I've learned a whole lot in my year and a half here. Enough to develop a decent understanding of what's going on and what concrete actions I could take in my corner of the world. I think we can't expect action without understanding of why act and what action. I think discussions here help with that. For all the people who post and comment, there are many who read, learn go find out more, and so on. Some of those would take action that they wouldn't have otherwise. If we don't platform that do this, if all there is are corporate platforms that keep people unaware of even the basics of what's happening beyond the reporting, then the number of people who'd act in some productive way would be even lower.
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Counterpoint: no amount of red scare great replacement free market nonsense is gonna make me not shut off whatever screen is showing it to me
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Sure, moderating and creating places like the fediverse are good and useful. But 99% of the time people spend on the fediverse isn't doing that
I feel like this article misses the essence of the original. It's a strawman. Yes, being on the fediverse is better than being on twitter/facebook whatever corpo media. But it is equally susceptible to just endless scrolling without any action
Many Twitter refugees made a good choice in migrating from Musk’s X to Bluesky, carving out a new online space that is inhospitable to bigoted debate bros and time-wasting trolls. But in their enemies’ absence, many of these Left-leaning posters have just reverted to dunking on each other, preferring the catharsis of sectarian conflict over the hard work of organizing.
Yeah I've tried bluesky, this is entirely accurate. 90% of US political content on bluesky is basically a combination of r/whitepeopletwitter and r/clevercomebacks. Same people too, that reddit loves
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Yeah but no one wants to write about the real solution. # See inglorious basterds for instructions.
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I think the fediverse might provide a supporting role in information sharing but it can’t really replace in person organizations.
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The corpo media doesn't want you writing about real solutions, it's easier to get away with here! And i doubt the alphabet agencies will care as much as they used to now that they're being directly attacked.
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Musk wants to be acknowledged as superior by everyone, Trump only cares about a few fashie friends/idols/key holders of his.
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Yeah, especially because you're all a bunch of feds out to learn the secret plans of my radical leftist militia
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Pictures prove that protests were big and non-violent
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Oh get off their high horse. I know of no instance that is like Ecosia where your activity gets to, dunno, plant a tree or something. If you say online spaces somehow physically fight fascism, show me how many homeless people is your instance physically sheltering or helping immigrate to a better country, and we'll talk.
Like, I love this kind of web space as much as the next person; but I don't fancy myself in the emperor's clothes.
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and non-violent
And that would be good... why?
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To attract more people to the follow ups
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“If there’s one thing I’d hoped people had learned going into the next four years of Donald Trump as president,” she writes,
Ever the optimist? The only four years thing i mean.
