Melvin_Ferd
@Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world
- Comment on When do we riot? 2 weeks ago:
But we’re in a digital world. Using paper in a digital age is like bringing a horse to Nascar. The left is hung up on this romanticized vision of coffee shop activism. It’s destroying us. Those solutions worked for the time they existed in.
- Comment on When do we riot? 2 weeks ago:
Zine zines.
They are a solution people took back in the day to self publish. Publishing company’s act like moderators did back in the day. They rejected this arbitrarily and gate kept what people saw. So people would create zines of their interests and leave them all over town. Some became super popular
- Comment on When do we riot? 2 weeks ago:
Wasn’t this the purpose of zines?
- Comment on When do we riot? 2 weeks ago:
Mods today are not what mods where originally used for. Hell does anyone remember what the original point of up and down voting was for.
Originally we held a strong belief that the community should control moderation while mods were there to make sure nothing illegal or crazy was posted.
We also didn’t call people arguing “trolling” but that changed so mods could remove anyone they didn’t agree with. It’s disgusting that we accepted it.
- Comment on When do we riot? 2 weeks ago:
Are you guys fucking nuts?
You can’t even utilize the tools giving to you to muster a solid defense online. You’re all just showing up everyday giving up/down votes and reading your daily alloted news article about Trump in your over moderate hug box.
You probably had to review multiple rules just to post this message in case you pissed off some almost homeless 18 year old moderator.
The left has been boxed in on purpose. We are in a snuff box. MAGA seized every platform that’s full of kindling and energy while we placed ourselves into a snuff box. Until we fix some core problems and understand how the internet works to engage people then nobody should be encouraging any kind of revolution. If you cannot fight in an online digital space and get measurable victories in a low effort maximum impact environment then a revolution is just going to get people killed and laws that push us towards more authoritarian state.
- Comment on NYT hiding information regarding a health related food recall behind a paywall 3 weeks ago:
They’re all switching back to providing content for free which would not happen if it failed. Only ones who can afford subscription model are ones that already established their brand and even then some failed
- Comment on NYT hiding information regarding a health related food recall behind a paywall 3 weeks ago:
NPR Guardian Vox
Vs
Tech crunch Time Atlantic
So much smarm for something you don’t really know.
- Comment on Why is AOC a big deal? She just speaks common sense and calls out absurdity. Have we really gone that far off the rails where we don't do it ourselves? 3 weeks ago:
Because a lot of you are cowards and hid away instead of helping to shape public opinion. When these leaders like AOC and others do not have people creating content on popular platforms then it leaves a runway for the opposition to create any narrative they want. It’s a numbers game at this point. The opposition convinced supporters to run away and hide and they did willingly.
- Comment on NYT hiding information regarding a health related food recall behind a paywall 3 weeks ago:
It worked for NYT because they already built a brand and had established customers. For others it failed. The model failed more than it succeeded aside from some special cases
- Comment on NYT hiding information regarding a health related food recall behind a paywall 3 weeks ago:
There is currently a subscription reversal because the model failed for now than it succeeded. NYT is in a spot where it could succeed off its established brand. But others it didn’t work. The trend is the subscription model fails. Times, WP, Atlantic and others couldn’t sustain it.
Also I’m left as fuck, I don’t care if quality is good or the model work to help some faceless group of shareholders. I’ll support whatever destroys anyone putting up pay walls online. Burn it all down. It’s the only way.
- Comment on NYT hiding information regarding a health related food recall behind a paywall 3 weeks ago:
Not sure if it was all ads. Like how some of the biggest eras of music coincide with pirating music. Maybe you can squeeze some subscriptions by blocking people but over time it isn’t sustainable. When you provide an easily accessible platform that people want to come to, you can leverage that to other sales, not just ads.
- Comment on NYT hiding information regarding a health related food recall behind a paywall 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know. But this doesn’t work
- Comment on NYT hiding information regarding a health related food recall behind a paywall 3 weeks ago:
Because profits don’t only come from subscriptions.
- Comment on NYT hiding information regarding a health related food recall behind a paywall 3 weeks ago:
Because the first 15 years online it was all for free and we all read much more news on their sites until they put it behind paywalls. Now we all get our news from memes. So that’s why.
- Comment on What happens when you just refuse to pay and go ... ? 5 weeks ago:
I wish more of us didn’t. But we’re not really set up to keep these topics fresh. Even look at lemmy. Moderation has created momentum killing boxes that suck the life and energy out of any current events. Almost by design
- Comment on What happens when you just refuse to pay and go ... ? 5 weeks ago:
Good try but the lefts goldfish brain already moved on.
- Comment on The same adult daughter who has trouble loading a dishwasher efficientlyly... 1 month ago:
Warm syrup? No thanks
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 1 month ago:
Where you fighting that fight because everybody who seems to care is also removing themselves from all social media. They keep saying they’re doing things locally like …
Meeting in coffee shops?
Like weirdly I’ve had this phrase said to me multiple times and it’s so silly. Hold on guys I’m going to release a new movie I spent years making. I refuse to use the space with millions of people cause I don’t like who created it. I’m going to stand around Starbucks and tell people about it. Find me 40 years to build up a cult following
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Yea it’s insane. We need to get back to the idea that anyone is replaceable. That’s the safest they can be when people realizes any successful attempts wouldn’t even matter.
Security industry is incestuous
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 2 months ago:
My first comment was about working 8hrs for 9hrs. You came here being smug about 9hrs being acceptable. It isn’t and shouldn’t be. You can’t even engage honestly and never intended to. You are who you are
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 2 months ago:
Depends on the job.
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 2 months ago:
I didn’t realize it was gutted. We’re 7.5 here with 2 15 minute breaks.
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 2 months ago:
I’m asking because I don’t know the answer. That’s the point of asking you to explain so I can actually answer you.
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 2 months ago:
How so
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 2 months ago:
It’s not their choice if they’re them coming here to complain they don’t have time for their own life.
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 2 months ago:
Lol
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 2 months ago:
No
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 2 months ago:
Should they
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 2 months ago:
Yea, cool.
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 2 months ago:
I love reading all the comments from people sharing a similar experience. This is what we deserve