They’re still limited. Their algorithm can still be manipulated even when it’s weighing content to the right. It’s almost easier since it feeds you their content which makes it easier to counter their bullshit, overwhelm their messages they’re trying to get out, or just flat out troll the fuck out of them.
You’re actually proving the point. r/conservative is a sub reddit within the bigger site. Outside of it lots of people make fun and control the narrative on it. This takes their ability and usefulness away when it’s just bots communicating. It also let’s people become aware what the next talking points will be.
So why you prove my point is that individuals may be able to limit their comments on a post but the while site is harder to censor and with enough people working, you can disrupt their propaganda. Fascists grow on misinformation and displaying power through imagery. You tear them apart when Greg shows up in his nazi coat and people post instant memes on every platform. They grow when they control the narrative and they can’t control the narrative unless they remove us
The algorithm are controlled by engagement and profits, they’re not controlled by MAGA. MAGA attempts to steer the algorithm to their content by convincing the left to abandon all social media
They can only control certain aspects of the variable. They still have parts you can control. They still need their people to view posts and guess what, those posts still have comments.
I don’t actually think “they” control it in the way you think. I still think it’s profit and engagement based. They feed you stuff based on total user engagement. That’s why the are so many bots on the left that keep telling everyone on the left to disengage or quit the major platforms. They want to rebalance the algorithm to their content.
It’s a numbers game. The goal is to create more content. There’s a study that shows it takes a small percentage of a group to shift their views for the entire group to change. It’s 10%. The other aspect is the views expressed can’t be loose. They have to be incredibly immovable and confident. This is what the bots are doing on the right. The solution would be to mimic that, not avoid it. It just depends if you’re looking to stop or fight them or if you’re just casually wanting to observe and complain daily. Social media is one of the critical tools for fascists.
I disagree. I think social media plays a much larger role in this then anyone is willing to admit.
Just look at the effort by people who want power to to manipulate and own social media.
Whare i think needs to happen is the left need to go back to their roots. Create their own bots. Leverage ai. Confront them on every social media space
I worry that with the tools we have now, it changes how fascism works. They failed over and over and over until they are given what is essentially a nuclear weapon. It’s not just the internet. It’s amount of wealth in the hands of people who never deserved it. It’s the number of middling average men with tremendous power and money. It’s not like the 40s where there was more limits on basic things, logistic and communication.
I wish one day we can look back at all this like we do with McCarthyism. But I’m also really concerned we won’t
They all lulled us with meme culture. Instead what we needed was to create anti ads. Any time our podcast or content creators began showing ads, then we should have first been super pissed off. Pissed Off because these people ruined television. We were in a time when companies were creating patents were you had to shout the brand name at your TV to turn off the commercial. The internet was content creation without those capitalist fucks. Second we should have made an effort to create as hostile and environment to them as possible. Sorry to the little guy, but go to cable access.
For every ad that sucked our free time, we could have produced at least 2 anti ads. Like when a podcast advertised for zockdoc or whatever, we all needed to leave comments like “pretty sure they told my aunt she had cancer even though it was just a cough” or if it’s some drop shipper on reddit acting like they just found this cool temu star lamp then every comment should have been about how these lights burst into flames and killed your entire family.
We need to make the internet as hostile as possible to advertisers. They are the reason we are tracked and why have enshittification. They built the systems to track our profiles and market to us all under the guise of selling ads to random content creators. Why is pewdiepie and Jack Paul and Joe Rogan millionaires now meddling in our politics. Because we didn’t defend this new frontier. We knew they’d create data scarcity, we knew we had to stop it, but they rat fucked us with cat videos and memes.
I honestly just think you’re wrong. I can see the point you’d like to make. I can give you the benefit of the doubt that social media as it is isn’t great. But I also think you’re wrong
I have read them. Cigarettes give you cancer and is not a hard drug. But it wasn’t my argument. I would think if they’re arguing it so blatantly they would have even a basic summary of why.
This is patriot act levels of invasion. I need some damn answers why we’re doing this all again
I don’t see how what we’re saying is different?
They’re going to tie people to their online activities as well as offline. If anyone shows up to a protest, they’ll be able to take photos and search for every account you are associated with. Think about the smear they could create with Alex if they had this fully operational now.
That’s how they want to verify underage kids. You need to upload photo proof of your ID. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that agencies like ICE are also taking everyone’s pictures to upload to Palantir database.
Can you explain how social media would cause worse outcomes than kids doing hard drugs
Stop. I’m not fucking playing this stupid game. I’m well aware of data brokers and selling our data. This is clearly different uploading pictures of yourself with id as a requirement to access websites.
If she had wheels she’d be a bike
Exactly. I don’t think it’s a surprise this all aligns with companies like palantir collecting people’s images into their database. I have a feeling on the backend these identities will all be used to track people online. Photos of faces and their identities is about to become a hot commodity.
It’s not as bad as drugs. Don’t give your kids phones. Be a parent. Don’t need to upload all our data and Id to palantir databases for tracking under the same old “protect the children” bullshit
I bet this is related to Palantir facial recognition. Seems like identifying people and feeding it into some database is very important lately.
How do you know their age?
I hate these people. I’m at a loss for words
Yea I’m agreeing with this. I think we’re at a point that every country needs to band together and block these sites. I’m not seeing any benefit to having these as they are
Im coming back because I had another thought. Why don’t we focus on marketable protests like this online rather than trying to get people in the streets?