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Cake day: November 1st, 2023

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  • I fear this is too charitable an estimation of the average US citizen’s ability to spot propaganda. I genuinely worry some people are fooled by how it’s all wrapped in the flag and not understanding the dangers of nationalism or the alt right pipeline just fall for it and end up buying in, not because they were inherently a bad person, but because they were easily fooled (the main cause of which I believe is that they were intentionally not taught critical thinking skills and media literacy as those skills more easily allow us to see through the various illusions, and the same goes for emotion regulation skills, empathy, and an understanding of marginalization and intersectional politics, which protect against the coordinated effort by the system(s) and those with power to attempt to turn us against each other and see others as non-human, but that’s a whole huge conversation (that I’m willing to have but not necessarily publicly; feel free to reach out if you intend to have a good faith conversation))





  • Some quick points:

    • blocked off API access (last I checked you could get around this by paying an exorbitant fee 🙄) meaning 3rd party apps don’t work and you absolutely must use the official app which is garbage and collects all kinds of data from what I’ve heard (never used it) as well as disabling services that do stuff with reddit data from the API such as mass delete scripts users would use to get their content off reddit

    • fertile ground for bots and bad actors to manipulate, misinform and recruit users into alt-right and other spaces that perpetuate harm

    • moderation policies and practices that allow and in some cases encourage Nazi shit while blocking or restricting harm reduction, LGBTQIA+, anti-fascist, etc topics

    • massive astroturfing and dis/misinfo campaigns

    • flagging the word “Luigi” for violent content with automod and giving people warnings for upvoting content that goes against preferred narratives

    And certainly more that I’m forgetting