I have heard my brother in law (who voted for trump) say that things will have to get very bad before he can make them better. His base knows. They dont care and think its ‘part of the plan’

Damn kids acting like 5-10 years before they were born was the dark ages. Damn.

Those NSFW communities will have their culling, mark my words. The more fringe it is the more at risk it is. If reddit keeps NSFW it will end up like Lemmynsfw. Maybe even less interesting. With this stock dip Reddit has to be thinking about it.

Sounds like fun on the bun!

It’s inevitable, in part because of how easy AI will make bot farms and censorship. Really all the problems reddit has, we will see here and probably faster than the 10-15 years it took reddit. It wasn’t just policy that ruined reddit, it was capital interests and special interests. Groups dedicated to swaying opinion, taking over subs, banning and shadow banning users.

In it’s way, Lemmy will be easier to break because we’re all already slightly fragmented. Imagine your favorite instances getting taken over like r/undelete and then defederating all the other opposition servers. Or…becoming hostile like reddit.

Then we have the greater slide to fascism. SOME of what Reddit is doing is in line with simply trying to survive that. We have no idea what kind of controlling laws might come out that will shut down or police instances hosted in places like the US. Misinformation laws. All and all it’s a scary time.

I like lemmy because it feels like I’ve gone back 12 years or so to a better reddit. Back to old reddit. But really it’s just a matter of time.

I really think we’ve seen a pretty complete cycle of social media over the last 25 years. If you look at how we used it and how it is used in China, Russia, or NK. It’s been weaponized as much as monetized. Maybe more.

This is such dumb shit. I wish his father hit him more as a child. It wouldn’t have beaten the stupid out of him but maybe he’d be quieter

They’ve been doing it since reconstruction. I read the opinion once that labor never got true power in America because they kept excluding blacks for a long time. I think about that a lot. Hating a black guy was more important to many labor movements than class solidarity.

Don’t take it personally. It’s been my experience that people generally can’t accept the harsh truths of reality and instead choose to get upset or offended.

When the war was turning in Ukraine’s favor and they were about to push into Russia, he shut it off and crippled their counter offensive. I remember. Fuck Elon and fuck starlink.

Yep, the internet used to be counter culture. Now it’s controlled opposition at best.