John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed
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seriously - too many people see criticism of Israel's government and read it as condemnation of all Jews. As if it's the case that that government represents all Jewish people worldwide (or even all Jewish people in Israel...!)
It's like people are thinking that wanting Israel to stop its genocide also means there should be another genocide targeting Jews?? Nuance beyond that sort of black-and-white polarized viewpoint seems to be increasingly dead.
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we
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Anyone have a link that works for Canadians, you MONSTERS?
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If BlueSky is full of Jew hate, "it's legion", but you’re still using it over Mastodon and Mbin, doesn’t that contradict the idea that antisemitism makes a platform unattractive? If it were your main issue, wouldn’t both be equally bad? Seems like the deciding factor is engagement for you personally, not what moderation happens or doesn't happen.
If antisemitism were the real deal-breaker, you wouldn’t be on BlueSky either.
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Someone on mastodon told me, if you haven't found someone on fedi, you ate probably not looking hard enough. But no, I don't think they are on fedi
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And what about the antisemitism claims?
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Good question. Would love that!
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One of the few decent TV hosts. His reporting on Palestine breaks with the anti-Palestinian censorship that dominates US media.
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I wish he had mentioned Lemmy, but it's understandable that he didn't. Also Bluesky isn't an alternative to big tech, it IS big tech. I wish it wasn't stealing so much of our publicity lately.
But beggars can't be choosers, and we have seen some nice growth over the past couple months. John Oliver fans are the perfect candidates to join the fediverse, hopefully some of them find their way to Lemmy.
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Duckduckgo? That's just a search engine, no?
I agree on the rest of the parts tho
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Oh come on, it's not like you're any better yourself. I've seen your comments around lemmy, and most were racist towards arabs.
what genocide? arabs attack, rape, and murder, then esconce the terrorists directly in and between civilian populations for the sole reason so that when israel responds the body count can be escalated and used as public relations. genocide. shame on you.
I don't recall doing any of that.
Anti zionism =/= anti semitism.
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Yup. I'm always wary of people lumping anti zionism, anti Israel government, and anti semitism all in the same bag.
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Yeah, odd inclusion. Duckduckgo is indeed a search enginge, but it's essentially just a front end for Bing.
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Awesome!
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Sadly yes
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How is Brave right wing? Because of cryptocurrencies?
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It’s not explicitly rightwing.
A couple years ago Musk was recommending Signal.
It’s just an example of right wing people recommending alternatives.
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Agreed, but at least Bluesky is a public benefit corporation, so it supposed to take in the needs of society as well as profit in its decision-making. That may not be much, but it's a start.
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The lack of nuance when discussing that conflict is one of the biggest issues I have. So many people seem to see it as "The Israeli genocide is bad, therefore Hamas is good". In reality, you have shitty people with power fighting shitty people without power, and civilians getting shafted by both.
