Alt account of @Cube6392@beehaw.org for looking at stuff Beehaw defederated

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Cake day: June 26th, 2023
  • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.nettoFediverse@lemmy.world•Any fediverse like discord clones?English
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    4 days ago

    how is that the point you were making? it seems like the opposite of the point you were making. i’m confused and i think i just don’t understand what you’re trying to say when you say matrix doesn’t federate. because from one matrix server you can talk to other matrix servers, but from rocket chat, that’s it, that’s the end of the line. your server is your server

  • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.nettoFediverse@lemmy.world•Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.English
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    1 month ago

    during the first big migration to lemmy a lot of folks were splitting between discord and here, and a really common refrain was “anything but old school forums” and i absolutely did not and do not get this attitude. old school forums were great! the discussions were always super relevant because everyone was there to discuss whatever specific thing everyone had signed up for, and the people posting were always super reliable, knowledge wise, because, again, it was a dedicated place for discussing something specific, and the frequently asked questions would always end up in a really good wiki. sometimes i wonder if people had bad experiences on those forums because they’re much more focused. like on reddit everyone would complain about the arch forums on r/arch, but none of what they said matched the actual tone of the arch forums. it made me think they posted short one liner questions as thread starters instead of giving a full breakdown of the error they were seeing, what they did to troubleshoot the problem, and what errors had come about during that process.

    overall, i think we’ve had a shift in the architecture of the internet thanks to general purpose discussion sites like twitter and reddit. before, the internet was cathedrals filled with texts related to their specific topic. everything on a sportster related forum was going to be about the maintenance and modification of sportsters. maybe there was a subsection where people could talk about their other motorcycles, but that was more of a social lounge than anything, like the equivalent of the fellowship hall in my cathedral analogy.

    after reddit and twitter took over those scenes, the internet became a mall. unfocused, impersonal, and only meant to pipeline you into purchasing products. none of the people up front are very knowledgeable because you don’t need to be knowledgeable to make sales, you need to be attention getting. especially when what’s for sale is disposable

  • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.nettoFediverse@lemmy.world•Every Country That Has Their Own Lemmy InstanceEnglish
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    2 months ago

    how you recognize propaganda is that everything is propaganda. your comment, this comment, the original article, the concept that russia remains communist, it’s all propaganda. the key isn’t learning to recognize propaganda, it’s learning to analyze the biases of who’s presenting the propaganda.

    here, i’ll tell you my biases. i’m an anarcho communist located in the united states. there. now that you have that intel, you can start to assess what kinds of propaganda you’d expect to see from me. more, when i don’t put out the kinds of propaganda you expect, you can question the following:

    1. do i have a blindspot? are my politics and my propaganda out of alignment because there’s something that’s been normalized to me that you should point out in the hopes i’m capable of growth (that’s what i did when i said russia remaining communist simply isn’t true)
    2. am i misrepresenting myself or my propaganda? maybe i’m just saying i’m something i’m not to get my propaganda to people who are susceptible to not knowing my misinformation is misinformation, and then they’ll be shifted. or, is my propaganda lie meant to draw people to my misinformation stream. in this case, it’s best to disengage. block+report+ostricize+move on. this is what i would have done if i thought you were a tankie
    3. do you have a blindspot? are my politics and my propaganda out of alignment because you, the recipient, are missing some piece of the puzzle. do you need to look into the validity of my claims to find out if you need to learn and grow and change? the equivalent to this would be if i found your message and your politics compelling enough to change my views

    the kinds of classes we receive on how propaganda works in elementary and high school are meant to get us to rigidly stick to the status quo that benefits the authoritarian rulers of society. they are, themselves, propaganda. in fact, this notion you have that we can talk about propaganda without context i actually find a little bit dangerous. by stripping context and discussion of origins of propaganda, we actually create the exact form of non critical environment that benefits the misinformation peddlar.

    then again, you don’t have to find my perspective compelling. that’s why i told you up front what it was, as well as what my propaganda is.