You can just have things be out of scope. It’s really okay!

Thanks for the work you’ve put into this.

Which is just as risky as instantly updating unless you’re really closely keeping an eye on which updates are security related.

Thank you!

No, but it clearly wasn’t the solution. They likely could have used some of those people they fired for that.

pushing people towards specific ideas using social media

I’ve been incredibly concerned about this for more than a decade. Watching r/the_donald in action was incredible and validated all of that fear.

And it’s still happening. On all social media, including here.

Certain narratives are pushed hard, and it’s effective. Some of it is fully genuine. Some of it is/was seeded artificially and picked up some genuine steam, and is still being reinforced. The stuff that’s fully artificial seems to be dropped fairly quickly most of the time these days.

After the artificial narrative picks up and gets genuine sentiment mixed with it, it becomes hard to tell the difference. If you can mix it in with existing emotions, like anger that we’re in this situation, and add in some seeds of truth it works even better.

Propaganda works. On all of us. And just by being here, we’re being exposed. But I’m afraid to leave, too. The more real people leave the easier it is to manipulate the remainder.

It’s just all so easy and effective and actually happening. And the alarm bells about it aren’t loud enough.

Yeah, I am on .World which for some reason still federates with .ml. I’ve moved over to Piefed on Desktop, just not on mobile yet.

Just read these 14 books from 1930 if you want to have an opinion. No, I can’t summarize anything from them. They can only be understood in their entirety.

All hail Putin, Xi.

If you want to find out if they’re an actual tankie, just look for anything related to Russia or China. They out themselves pretty quick, usually.

You should leave any instance that is federated with the Triad, imo. Lemmygrad, Hexbear, and ML are all Russia sponsored/supported instances that should be shunned by Lemmy as a whole.

You’re encouraging people to “stay home in well-earned disgust”. That serves the fascists.

End of story.

There are ways to say what you want to say carefully. But in my opinion stopping the Nazis needs to come before any other priorities.

I think some of it is intentional, and some are just taken along by that.

Also it’s always easier to throw rocks from the sidelines than to actually lead. It’s so much easier to find something wrong with everything than it is to try to figure out the right thing to do.

Plus nuance is always difficult. Better to just treat everything as back and white.

start small … nextcloud

Vaultwarden is what you’re looking for.

If the thousand instance users are controlled by three people, it’s not that hard.

We might not be there yet though. Elections are far enough out.

I expect 95% of Lemmy to be propaganda and manipulation when we get closer. There’s only so much that can be done to keep out nation states when all the users are anonymous.

And when you put your real name on things, you get cancelled.

It’s a bad time for the Internet, and I don’t have easy answers. Just be very aware that what seems to be “consensus” opinion might actually be twenty accounts controlled by the same guy or organization. They might even argue with each other, and just have the side they want to lose present weak arguments.

Doesn’t xmpp require a constant connection?

Looking at and/or incorporating Navidrome might be helpful.

At least for the first year.

I’m on Boost, but should probably look at Voyager.

I get that you’re using AI directly related to your point, but it’s still a lot of shitty AI spam.

Use it for your own research, but don’t foist that on us.

The other difference is that promoting more and more obscure, useless shit ruins your credibility for when you’re trying to get them to Lemmy or Signal or Mastodon.

Signal is an absolutely fine product and doesn’t need to be decentralized right now.