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'where Did The Tinfoil Hat Come From?' Who Benefits From Control Of Speech? Not Me And Not You And The Actual King Goon Doesn't Matter - Blog Posts
and how did i even learn of tildes/fedi to begin with? reddit. Links upon links to "how to set up mastodon" "how to join tildes".
here's the thing: whole subreddits are now outright dead, with only antique/nothingburger posts and a link to discord. local chapter of 4chan* has a survey every New Years. It's userbase shrinks and grows old. As local digg went from "nonobviously rightwing nutjob leaning" to "rightwing nutjob turf", people visibly migrated to national subreddit (causing an influx of whiny posts). This caused this not-digg's frontpage to go from "there is something interesting" to "all trash all the time". Hell, afaik The 4chan was better until janitor positions were taken over by neonazis, tho all i remember is dropping by and going "wow even the insults/conspiracies got shittier". Like, i am pretty sure /a/ had real threads instead of a torrent of m e d i o c r i t y. You'd expect tiddies but not even that
You're seeing the point i'm getting to, right? Creativity (and thus, quality content to jump ship for) is fundamentally** left-leaning. When enmuskittification of twitter happened, where did people go to? Tumblr. Why? because SM reposts. The Good Stuff had tumblr structure -> tumblr it is. In other words, it's not even needed to proselytize. The moment the user wants to leave the cesspool, they will, taking literally the first train link out. Do you know anyone who is hanging around those 9gag meme aggregator sites? (If you do, how the hell they didn't migrate to greener pastures already?) You do not need to do fancy loopholes to point them elsewhere, especially when you can just search for search engines/social media/forums (these still exist!).
…so, how the fuck did you manage to catch me on supremely awkward tumblr? because i'm not on feddit et al! The other part of it is - people stick to specific websites because they have critical mass of users that end up producing qualityposts on various topics, not just specific censorbait. Consider all the posts here on Palestine - noone would bother if it was an echo chamber, BDS call to action works only if released upon territories that are general-assembly, otherwise the blast zone is too small.
Herein lies my actual parry: people get tech-savvy with time/practice/neccesity. By being the content on sites you do not want to support, you disincline them to leave these lands. What if they try to talk, get banned, then fed up, then leave FB/tiktok/etc? Good! That's what should happen! They will move and wherever they go to will be richer for it. Furthermore: persistent 'stupidity' 'naivete' conceals something else. What if they like it there because it censors icky, inconvenient, buzz-killing subjects? This is why leaving is so important - by staying the cesspool gets the good (original thought that comes from not being the majority) without the bad (the minorities existing at it)!
tbh i despise "can someone please think of the children!" argument. It always covers something else - even if in this case it doesn't seem to cover anything more ambitious than unwillingness to cut ties with whoever is on… the blacklist the discouse of OP's post provides. Anything that protects the children either protects everyone or is An Agenda. So yes, we can and should leave to rot anyone who doesn't want to leave.
in the spirit of the post, furthermore was partially powered by:
*because of it's secrecy, yes, but that also means it's a quality chan still. **i do not need to labor for proof of that, right?
...also now that i'm double-checking above i'm reminded of a method to disrupt activists by tying them up in inefficent endeavours. Couldn't find a good proof it's part of modernized cointelpro until i tapped mojeek. Not an accusation but it's good to have an eye on the big picture and the goal-of-goals, yeah?
Endlessly diabolical how you can't say words like rape and suicide uncensored without either being criticised by idiots or punished by conglomerates.