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[–] [email protected] 3 points 57 minutes ago

The only issue I have with this is that this fules the generalisation of politics even more. There is a lot more of a nuance in politics than just left/right or conservatives/liberals etc. You see this more in countries with more politics parties. It’s not an either or but a spectrum.

But this meme really suits the current climate of Shitter and the US politic system

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 hours ago

God, imagine that... we switch to federated and the Nazis can no longer hide behind "Just asking questions" and getting the site admins to bully people.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 9 hours ago

They are slowly leaking into lemmy.world, my friends living in .world please try your best to hold your position there. Don't let them break through

[–] [email protected] 72 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

We should keep them all trapped on twitter forever.

It's a good containment zone for the trash.

If you see someone supporting Trump tell them to go back to twitter and block them

[–] danhab99 4 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

TBH I'd rather them leave Twitter just so Twitter doesn't make money

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Twitter isn't making money anyway

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago

it stopped being about money a while ago, its literally a tool now, not a revenue source.

Or more accuratley, its a weapon, a weapon in the information war. being weilded by the Corpo-Oligarchs, the Fascists, the nazis, the Russian state, and whatever brain-worm is in Elon's head on any given day. When Elon was forced to buy twitter, he obviously decided "fuck it, im going to use this to exert my will on the world then". and then a year later, he was doing jumping jacks on stage for Trump rallies.

Fucking

Called

It

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago

the idiots peddling conservatism aren't going to pay much to twitter and the advertisers who are staying aren't giving them a fraction of what they Used to get

[–] [email protected] 41 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Just had to block someone that said wanting a democracy and not supporting a dictatorship was "Chasing perfection at the cost of the good".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

🤣damn

But why blocking? That person does not just disappear, and if all non insane people block them, they don’t see that most disagree, but thinks all agree

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 hours ago

That's wild given a dictatorship has the whole issue of succession, even with a perfectly benevolent leader they gonna die one day.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago

haha goddamn

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 hours ago

Whenever beating up fascists and their sympathizers is a question the answer is always yes >:3

[–] [email protected] 257 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (3 children)

Isn't it weird how much harder it is for them to tip the scales on Lemmy and Mastodon, platforms without algorithms designed by right-wing billionaires?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (3 children)

To be fair, it took a huge Reddit exodus for Lemmy to stop being full-blown work camp supporting communist. I'm sure if enough to right wing trolls showed up, this place would change again too

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 hours ago

We are fortunate then, that the upcoming generation of conservatives cannot read.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 hours ago

That's a good point, but at least the views would reflect those of the majority rather than being algorithmically-manipulated as on Twitter or Facebook.

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[–] [email protected] 119 points 16 hours ago

WHAT? Are you implying that the rich used the advantage of closed black box algorithms to screw with peoples opinions, motivations and emotions for the goal of enriching themselves both financially and with power‽

Preposterous!/s

[–] RagnarokOnline 71 points 16 hours ago (5 children)

Kinda makes ya think… Maybe letting someone else filter the content you see is an inherently biased concept.

I’d rather apply my own biases to my feed, tyvm.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

So much harder to manufacture consent without centralized gatekeepers

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[–] [email protected] 96 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Hey it isn't nice to beat up people who only want to seriously hurt and maim you, your family and your friends.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Right? What happened to tolerance?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

What happened to tolerance is quite clear, to the point that it has a name, it is called the paradox of tolerance.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance#%3A%7E%3Atext=The+paradox+of+tolerance+is%2Cthe+very+principle+of+tolerance

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 16 hours ago (5 children)

Well, bluesky isn't the fediverse, but the point stands.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

I'm ignorant af tbh 😅 Thanks for the clarification

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

Part of their marketing seems to be to create confusion about it. Bluesky uses the language and values of the fediverse to promote what is essentially another closed network. Meta is also doing this with Threads. Bluesky seems like a chill place and a lot of decent people seem to be very happy there, and they provide a lot more user controls than other networks, so the comic definitely still works.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 15 hours ago

I think Mastodon would be what you're looking for.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 15 hours ago

Bluesy is a business, Mastodon is a community tool that runs on the ActivityPub (same as Lemmy which is what we are talkin on).

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