Fwiw, one can be a Marxist Leninist and think Russia’s government sucks. It is anything but Marxist or Leninist.

I know you didn’t mean that, but figured it needed to be said.

@jalefkowit People will say she’s too young, too inexperienced, but I say she should skip the Senate and go straight for the White House in 2028. She’d be great.

@drq the problem part is, these people are common in upper management

https://xkcd.com/154/

@konomikitten@tech.lgbt that... doesn't sound like a good combination

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#mastoart

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/37870004

reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).

the reason why this happened is because reddit is a for-profit company and tries to extract money out of the userbase, at the expense of the users.

another example of a bad decision that reddit made was to push a lot of ragebait (“Am I The Asshole?”) because company shareholders want to see “engagement numbers” go up, and if somebody writes an angry reply to a post, that’s “engagement”. but it makes you angry at the stupidity of the “Asshole”, so it makes your day worse. that is another example how reddit makes money at the expense of the users.

size (number of monthly active users) is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.

we should probably get rid of the “don’t make lemmy grow, it will ruin the platform if we grow” idea.

Did exercise while sick, oops

Saw a post saying some shitty Christian lemmy instance was spamming bullshit on one of their latest posts, I said something along the lines of “probably Russians”. Come to find out my comment was removed and I was banned… then to find out they effectively have a CCP agent running town… lol.

I’ve seen people mention they were a garbage instance, now I know why! They said I broke rule 1 … this might just be the app I’m using but they don’t even have any fucking rules to look at lmao.

Glad they did the work for me and made it easy to avoid them.

@tommi wow I didnt even know allergies had scales like that

Still thinking about how tabs and bookmarks are basically the same thing, and how lots of other features are also the same thing

Did exercise while sick, oops

Their rules are on their front page.

Edit: OP said this:

this might just be the app I’m using but they don’t even have any fucking rules to look at lmao.

I’m literally just responding to it. Thanks for the downvotes 🤡

Rule 1 aka you can’t point out the moderators overt bias or conjecture as to why their bias exists.

Ten years of tech activism have taught us something uncomfortable: #mainstreaming crew carries the assumptions of forty years of #neoliberalism and #postmodernism, dressed up as unquestionable "common sense".

That common sense narrows imagination by training people to see society through individual competition, personal identity and market logic, while making collective responsibility, solidarity and shared ownership harder to recognize.

Challenge these assumptions and the response is blinded defensiveness or hostility. The problem isn't simply resistance to new ideas, it's that the dominant culture has made alternatives difficult to see, discuss or organize around.

Prod too hard and they retreat into their shells like snails!

Our #openweb native path is to build the grassroots cultures and social structures that can mediate this mess. We need to challenge the assumptions without allowing every disagreement to collapse into personal conflict.

We aren't here to endlessly accommodate #mainstreaming common sense. We're here to create the space and collective confidence to move beyond it.

The task isn't to mainstream the alternative. It's to rebuild the native culture that makes alternatives possible.

That's what #OMN and the #4opens are about.

@Paul @anarodrigues I’m sure the Manchester WordPress User Group would welcome you, even if you’re not doing WordPress. Lovely bunch of folks. Look up @rhyswynne

OH: "The origin of Free Software was RMS having a tantrum about a printer."

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