Something like that. I see a weird pattern with articles about AI and articles about immigration in right wing circles. They’re the same. Like the themes and focus in the headlines for each all seem to be reused

That’s not true

Someone the other day bragged that they tagged me as a fascist and racist 😆 I have no idea why but I think tagging is stupid in general.

I guess it freaks me thinking that maybe the real content was bots the entire time and that this is just us. No real insight. No moving anything forward. Just reacting and then telling each other to go outside or touch grass the minute anyone calls it out. Like “shut up and observe your cat memes you internet denizen.”

I did want to read some comments discussing the contents of the article. I’ll pop back later I guess

This is kind of what I’m getting at. Like no matter what post I go on, it is all the same. The comments are cookie cutter from post to post.

4chan had insane investigative abilities. Reddit had insight from experts on so many posts about anything. Lemmy is just people who don’t like things.

Your Comment is on the level of “touch grass” just to highlight why lemmy is rapidly turning into a shit show

My disgust at lemmy users grows daily. This place was suppose to be something great. Why not just read the piece and go off what it says. People need to accept that technology is here and they need to get over it.

There are handful of comments so far and none of them are discussion the content. They’re all obsessed if they can tell if it’s AI or not.

Of course there issues with AI but this place was heavily astroturfed against and now we’re stuck with the consequences

I did. For a while it only got worse and seems like the leftist i was a part of have become just really pitiful sad lumps. Like they really focused on “cat playing piano” part of the internet but ignored the rest. The rest was too confrontational for them. The leftist i left were watching liveleak videos and laughing their asses off.

We have hit an inflection point where what you said is the crazy out of touch opinion, not mine.

Wtf has happened.

The internet has become much worse. Iran is the most important thing happening. But take reddit for example. There seems to be a moderation effort to eliminate multiple discussions and funnel everyone and everything into these single chats. Does that bother anyone else?

Back in the day there would be multiple discussions so many views and opinions. Multiple conversations created momentum and insight. Each iteration improved on the last with information and then there was a single thread that could link to multiple threads. It now seems like that’s all gone. Everything is sanitized. I scrolled through some homepages even here on lemmy and it’s like

lame joke,

cat posts,

dumb meme,

angry post about Hollywood,

ww3 breaking out mega thread,

cat video,

trumps a butt head,

video game

video game.

Is this our world now. The most important thing is moderated into a drawer so we can get back to the paying a cat tax and being silly guys. What the fuck is going on. I feel like I’m losing my god damn mind.

If only there was someplace closer

But would this be asking rich people to sacrifice their wealth for a greater good.

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?

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’m with you, I just think on top of those we also need to focus on where people are. Facebook does the heavy lifting now. They show you the most popular right wing groups now. It’s easy to post to them

no they don’t. That is what they tell their people. Israel is a foot hold into the Arab countries. Any military needs to be able to deploy rapidly. First to the battle has strategic advantage and smaller less powerful armies have destroyed larger ones just with that advantage. Israel lets America control that area and gives intelligence that it wouldn’t have otherwise. Without Israel, they lose a major strategic advantage to controlling the Arab world. The Big J side is all woo woo. Not even sure I’ve seen anyone really say that. Almost all of America’s moves are to control territory that gives their military the ability to deploy rapidly and to control territory.

I think it’s a bold strategy to leave the bigger more populated and used platforms to constantly exist on the smaller less relevant ones that never grow and offer everything the major platforms do just worse.

Shall we take Stalingrad? nonono it’s full of nazi’s, lets focus on Dieppe

That doesn’t make any sense. We all left these platforms. Like an exodus. How would that make it harder for these nazi’s to take over these platforms?

Is that enough? Isn’t there only like 11 million on mastadon?

Makes me think they’re there to scan the entire stadium and upload it to their new tracking database