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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • Edit: I’ll leave this here for now and move the comment if I see the poster resubmit in Politics

    I feel like that’s the endgame for the Trump empire and violence walks directly into their trap. They can play the blame game or martial law card and completely rebuild America to their standards. Revolution is sort of the point; who comes out in the end is the goal they have prepared for for decades. Indiscriminate violence is chaos and absolutely not the answer.

    The recent “no promoting violence” rule on Reddit is both foreshadowing and censorship. But for some reason Luigis scare Reddit terribly.














  • While I like to agree with that vision of decentralized social media, even here on lemmy we have our own pitfalls. Echo chambers are unchecked and defederation (even justified) happens.

    I don’t assume everyone here is a real person. There was a article recently that AI was training “persuasiveness” using reddit subreddits. I have to believe a similar trial exists on the fediverse least I be caught off guard.

    Plus, there are a lot of folks here (it seems like a majority sometimes in my personal experience) that are quick to advocate violence/sabotage in lieu of negotiation and debate. That reaks of puppeteering; there can’t be that many arseholes here, right?

    I know I have some strong biases that lean towards peace, and I’m confused sometimes why a comment of mine in the fediverse gathers double digit upvotes steadily only to plummet to the negatives overnight. I get old reddit botnet vibes on some topics.

    I suppose I want to like lemmy, the freedom, these communities, but it is still polarizing and influenceable by [insert tech/political/financial interests]. I don’t trust this enough to recommend to friends and family, but my presence here makes it a fraction more what I want to be.