This is basically true for every for profit run publishing platform. Just look how quickly bluesky started accommodating nazis. This is precisely why public forums should be publicly owned instead of being operated by profit seeking corporations.
This isn’t a problem that can be solved through boycotts. It requires actively building open platforms like Lemmy and Mastodon, and getting them to the level of quality that can compete with the dominant private platforms.
It’s natural that even with open platforms, bigger instances will largely align with mainstream views. After all that’s what makes them mainstream in the first place.
The big advantage with the federated model in particular is that you don’t have a single authority deciding the rules for everyone. And that makes it possible for alternative views and ideas to be discussed.
As the liberal mainstream continues to discredit itself, people fall out of the echo chamber, and that’s where niche communities become important.
The big advantage with the federated model in particular is that you don’t have a single authority deciding the rules for everyone. And that makes it possible for alternative views and ideas to be discussed.
Ack
As the liberal mainstream continues to discredit itself, people fall out of the echo chamber, and that’s where niche communities become important.
It was only because I’m a rebel. People tell me how bad others are and I have to see for myself. A bane and boon, at once. But I also already believed my lying eyes, just sometimes the empire is clever enough to make us question them. And I was already interested in communism for a long time, but couldn’t distinguish good information from bad, and I’m still learning.
At any rate, I think the jig is about up, with capitalism. I just hope people will take a leap of faith to the left, rather than dig heels into the rocky soil of the right, so to speak.
This is basically true for every for profit run publishing platform. Just look how quickly bluesky started accommodating nazis. This is precisely why public forums should be publicly owned instead of being operated by profit seeking corporations.
This isn’t a problem that can be solved through boycotts. It requires actively building open platforms like Lemmy and Mastodon, and getting them to the level of quality that can compete with the dominant private platforms.
And the biggest instance?
It’s natural that even with open platforms, bigger instances will largely align with mainstream views. After all that’s what makes them mainstream in the first place.
The big advantage with the federated model in particular is that you don’t have a single authority deciding the rules for everyone. And that makes it possible for alternative views and ideas to be discussed.
As the liberal mainstream continues to discredit itself, people fall out of the echo chamber, and that’s where niche communities become important.
Ack
I certainly hope so.
I recall you mentioned that Lemmy helped you get a better understanding of things, and I’m sure there are many other people people in the same boat.
It was only because I’m a rebel. People tell me how bad others are and I have to see for myself. A bane and boon, at once. But I also already believed my lying eyes, just sometimes the empire is clever enough to make us question them. And I was already interested in communism for a long time, but couldn’t distinguish good information from bad, and I’m still learning.
At any rate, I think the jig is about up, with capitalism. I just hope people will take a leap of faith to the left, rather than dig heels into the rocky soil of the right, so to speak.
Very much agree.
You’re a rebel? I would say the material conditions were right for you to seek out alternative information. You’re hardly the only one.
Chalking it up to some intrinsic personal characteristic seems idealistic
No need to read too much into anything and it was tongue-in-cheek.
That doesn’t always come through in text, my bad.