@kura@hai.z0ne.social ja doch, aber der ist schon tot

For those pushing for more "structure" in activism, most grassroots work doesn't happen that way. The world is messy, relationships are messy, and imposing top-down order causes more damage than it fixes.

Pause, breathe and think before pushing #mainstreaming over the people actually getting things done. Don't confuse managing people with building movements.

Don't drink from the mainstream.

#OMN #KISS #4opens

Yep, the AI bot farms finally drove me away from reddit! Lot better atmosphere here as well!

And Pixelfed, Peertube, Bookwyrm, PyLova, WAFRN, Mbin, Loops, Vernissage, … We are legion!

@Julie_ 🥰

Hello, person.

@jaakkostenros.bsky.social Dungeons & Discourse with Derrida.

Probably what’ll happen is lemmy.world will become the new reddit and we’ll all have to decide if we want to stay federated with them.

I welcome the schism if it ever occurs. I think it would be really interesting to see how a fully “scaled up” but non-corporate social media handles a challenge like that.

Even if we have almost exactly all the same problems reddit has, but without being a monolithic corporate platform, I think it would be an improvement.

I actually worry for when Reddit fully implodes, because the ensuing migration wave to Lemmy will bring the same problems and solutions with them.

Yes, i miss some aspects of Reddit, but I’m aware of the hypocrisy that comes with that statement as well

Quand tu travailles ton développé-couché avec ton bro à la salle mais no homo, hein ! ☝️⁠⁠🧐

I kind of wish I could remember what it was like to find federation confusing so I could explain it better to newbies.

@jaakkostenros.bsky.social What are those reasons?

When I posted a short thread earlier about AI "anti-abstracting", this is what I meant. We've been falling further away from the light of user-legible abstraction for decades, into the abyss of Computer Stuff, until that light is barely visible, a smudge in the dark firmament above. The AI can put us out of our misery, create all the Computer Stuff we'll ever need, crush us beneath it, blotting out the light forever, making it so we never need to understand anything in precise detail ever again.

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.

I have used it for 25 years. I never loved it. I don’t love operating systems anymore than I love hammers. I have 5 hammers.

Welcome!

@arichtman so the conspiracy theorists were right, they are putting the number of the beast into implantable microchips

One of the recurring tropes that bums me out *so* much about the process of AI sludge devouring software _specifically_ — with practitioners of the craft enthusiastically participating more than the practitioners of any other — is that the *self*-developmental potential of writing software is completely ignored.

I couldn't really fit this in to my blog post "Programming Isn’t Special" https://blog.glyph.im/2026/10/programming-isnt-special.html although it touches on many of the same themes, so that's good background for this.

The problem is liberal-progressive #mainstreaming is the #NGO culture, professional activists and #fashionista politics confuses looking inclusive with challenging power. Equality within the existing system rather than questioning the system itself. This is how they defend the #deathcult while claiming to oppose it.

Stop managing the mess, start challenging the system. #KISS: grassroots trust, solidarity and collective action. Less career politics, less performance, more real change.

The Russian “Doppelgänger” disinformation campaign features hundreds of individuals from over 50 countries, including politicians and former intelligence officers. The videos cover topics such as NATO, Ukraine, and various national politics.

https://www.occrp.org/en/investigation/from-politicians-to-academics-hundreds-around-the-globe-interviewed-and-featured-in-notorious-russian-disinformation-campaign

#Ukraine #Russia