You do realize votes don’t actually have any value right? And I have yet to see any community on lemmy ban account based on downvotes, this is just something you’ve made up here. There’s a reason why lemmy has a public mod long where you can see the reasons for bans. Show me a single instance of people being banned because their comments were downvoted.

Yes, people will try to push agendas, and this is nothing new or exclusive to social media. The real problem with commercial platforms is that a private entity controls the content on the platform deciding what people see using opaque algorithms, and introducing biases into content that benefit the company running the platform. That’s why corporate social media is so problematic. Again, you can compare wikipedia as an example to see the huge difference between an open and transparent platform compared to closed private ones.

There is simply no actual evidence to support your position I’m afraid. Mastodon network is literally millions of users now, and anybody who uses it regularly can see a drastic difference with corporate platforms.

Once again, it’s a question of incentives. People operating individual servers have no interest to allow corporate interference on the platform. The kind of small scale brigading you refer to is an organic phenomenon. I also don’t know what you mean when you say you can’t mention examples because this post will be a target. What will this post be a target of exactly, you’ll get a few downvotes. Why are you worried about that exactly?

Ah yes, the real fault is with the people resisting genocide. You’re so very intelligent.

The nature of the network makes it much more difficult for corporations to subvert the network, and the incentive structures are also different. The question isn’t one of interest, but one of structure. It’s much harder for corporations to bias a distributed network that’s not run for profit than platforms they own and manipulate themselves. And of course there are lots of instances of biased editing on wikipedia, but there’s no comparison compared to corporate platforms.

As long as it’s not run by corporations there’s no problem. This is the big advantage of the fediverse where it’s not a single site run for profit, but a whole bunch of servers operated by individuals largely running on donations. We can see how the fediverse is already refusing to federate with threads.

all corporate social media that is

Reminder that these atrocities are facilitated by the west, and would not be possible without full and unwavering support of the US regime.

It’s worse than that, the west will continue actively facilitating the genocide with unlimited financial and military aid.

empire is non negotiable

it was a pretty wild read

Right, middle class is a nebulous idea that doesn’t really have much meaning behind it. I agree that class membership derives its meaning from the relations in society. If majority of the income comes from the capital the individual owns then they’re a member of the capitalist class, and if majority of their income comes from their labour then they’re a member of the working class. These two classes have contradictory interests since capital owners act as employers of the workers.

That’s the part a lot of people in the west still don’t seem to get. The existence of Soviet Union alone was enough to force capitalists to allow for a relatively high standard of living for the working majority. As soon as the threat of a good example was destroyed, there was no longer any reason to keep up any pretenses. The exploitation could now begin in full.

looks like it can do metadata search https://immich.app/docs/features/search

this is a good read on the dynamics and selections pressures of financial capitalism that necessitate things be this way https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/08/the-value-of-nothing-capital-versus-growth/

I’d love to teach my cat to fetch as well. She does the first half of fetching where it’ll run after whatever you throw, but then doesn’t bring it back so you have to go and pick up the toy to throw again.

They’re so lucky to live in a free and democratic country.

indeed

lol yeah

The real question is how many billions they’re gonna get in government subsidies.

go back to reddit already