Melvin_Ferd
@Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world
- Comment on From a socialist perspective, what are the solutions to doomerism, and that "can't find love" feeling that I've been seeing on Twitter (specifically a frontend)? 6 days ago:
It’s never going to happen. Look at it responses here. Ass backwards. You’re giving the modern printing press and these people say “meet 3 friends locally and drunk craft beers”. They’re invested in an image and lifestyle more than doing what is needed to win. The left is cooked in a modern world. They haven’t lost the ground they have in the past 2 decades because the right are a bunch of morons as the left likes say. They have lost these past 2 decades because the left is owned and controlled by these people who failed to adapt.
- Comment on From a socialist perspective, what are the solutions to doomerism, and that "can't find love" feeling that I've been seeing on Twitter (specifically a frontend)? 6 days ago:
Yea, tell all your socialist friends to delete theirs too. These are pretty much channels that directly connect and network groups together. Its where ideas are spread and groups organize. What needs to happen is all leftist and socialist need to be run out of those platforms so that the eyes and ears of the right can be given red carpet to spread only their ideas. It’s a great plan.
- Comment on Does anybody actually work from 09:00 to 17:00 1 week ago:
Where are you all located. I’m in Canada. I work 8-4 or 9-5 depending. I have flexibility to choose.
- Comment on Hexbear is incapable of understanding hypocrisy 2 weeks ago:
I would say it was more like many places early on tried to build places that were community powered but it always went to a more hierarchical structure. Much like how capitalism and enshittification works. Over time, the people who really want something a certain way will get their way. We were headed in a good direction with voting. Then it’s like we just forgot about it. That feature turned into the most useless thing. Remember when sites all got rid of it at the same time? That was weird right. Maybe not so weird if they were all doing it because of outside pressure. Now we still have up and down arrows but they don’t do nothing
- Comment on Hexbear is incapable of understanding hypocrisy 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know which is the whole point of finding community solutions. No single person has the solution. A community develops it over time.
This was suppose to be a leftist leaning spaces. If they can’t fucking figure out how to moderate how do they expect to implement any of the core ideals. Cooperatives for example are exactly that.
Mods are the patriot act of the internet. It’s clear now looking back that the same shock doctrine that applied in every other part of life to limit freedoms and keep us controlled were applied to the internet as well. The barrage of CSAM across sites was the false flag that meant we all responded by giving away community based control to a handful of moderators, often times it was moderators who controlled 100s of other forums.
- Comment on Hexbear is incapable of understanding hypocrisy 2 weeks ago:
Automation plus mods are there to handle CSAM. Mods should be a nuclear option. They’re not there to uphold an ever growing list of vague rules like cops who arrest and beat citizens for “resisting arrest”.
- Comment on Hexbear is incapable of understanding hypocrisy 2 weeks ago:
No. Mods were born out of corporate and political interest to control mass media. Nothing more. Mods are there to convert digital spaces to align with their interest. They’re there to prevent people from actually forming another Egyptian spring, wiki leaks, anonymous or anything that could disrupt the current power structure.
- Comment on Hexbear is incapable of understanding hypocrisy 2 weeks ago:
Need to nuke mods all over. Go to 100% community ownership. Why the fuck any lefty accepts mods is beyond me.
- Comment on Why do you post here or other social media? 2 weeks ago:
I thought this place could be a way for leftist to fight back against right wing capture. Instead it’s like just really disappointing. It’s just really a showcase of why the right have succeeded and how the left went from a dominate position to the most submissive. I stay here and post hoping one day maybe people will wake up. But I also come here to be reminded how easy it is to lose it all if you choose the wrong team.
- Comment on What do you think realistically would happen the moment we meet extraterrestrials? 2 weeks ago:
Not sure but I have said that it’ll happen under Trump. It has to. The way things go lately this is just expected at this point
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Nope I’m putting them on a pedestal. Get wrecked
- Comment on Reddit is finally entirely dead to me 3 weeks ago:
It’s almost like we’re suppose to build and guard our communities and interest against tho… sorry I meant do nothing and complain.
- Comment on He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates? 2 months ago:
Holy shit, this doesn’t work. It’s 2026. You cannot get the runway you need to ever make this happen. None of you even bothered to create the runway. You handed the runways over to the people you want to protest.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 2 months ago:
I bet you’re all being used to manipulate stock prices.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Unless we figure out a way to organize better, adapt to modern tools and get rid of the of guard nothing will change.
- Comment on Did I discover a fake conspiracy theory? 2 months ago:
My conspiracy is that social media is being used to make every one much more callouse and cold to each other. That’s where they break the country. The bots knew it was very easy to manipulate the left to scare them off digital spaces. Now they have free reign to make all kinds of groups and posts filled with comments uncontested. Stuff like Pretti good shot on any shooting, hundreds of them. Over time it changes how people think since there is no push back. As it pushes people to be angrier and pissed off, it moves the public opinion away from any leftist since they’re seen as very weak and ineffective
- Comment on Australians banned social media. Now they are worried about teenagers going outside with e-bikes 3 months ago:
How do you know their age?
- Comment on London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime 3 months ago:
What is response? Do you think people going into to the streets against armed forces should pack up because the authoritarians have total control over the streets and can kick in heads at their discretion. Fuck that, people show up to oppose them regardless what they control to contest them and at the very least make it harder for the authoritarians rather than making it easier for them.
Who gives a shit if they boost right wing content. That shouldn’t stop anyone. That is a defeatist attitude that is spread all over the left and it needs to fucking stop.
If they boost their content, you go to the comments. It’s a numbers game. You’re not arguing with the chuds. You’re playing the game. Same game most people are all aware of yet others are blind to. You need numbers. Humans are social. They change opinions slowly over time, but only if they see the herd moving. This is why they’re attempting to control these platforms and convince the left to abandon them.
Regardless, the reality is they don’t just boost right wing content. They boost content that sells ads. Engagement sells. So when you all leave, it rebalanced everything to the right and their content spread. Leftist creators tried to break through and failed without Engagement. Right wing propaganda spread further and faster than ever before.
Arguing with CHUDS online is the biggest industry there is. There’s a reason for it. Call it whatever you like but it’s undeniable fact. These platforms are critical to stopping fascists. Fascist rely on public displays of strength and power. It’s the only place you can make them look like assholes effectively in front of the people that they’re trying to appear strong to.
You talk about wasting time. The biggest waste of effort and time is posting the same fucking anti trump slop here on lemmy but can’t be bothered to do it anywhere else. We all know he sucks and what they’re doing. This content isn’t created to hand to people who agree with you. People need to be flooding the zone with it.
- Comment on London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime 3 months ago:
Regardless if they own them. It’s still where the most amount of social relevance is. Some are there and it’s growing. But the left cannot win anything going forward unless they beat the fuck out of the reich on these platforms. They own it, but they can’t just flip a switch saying censor lefties and allow their ideas to spread. We’d all know and it would wildly turn a lot of people away from them. They are forced to leave the gates open. So instead they convince us to self censor. Reality is we all should be there now, building groups and putting their ideas against the ropes. It’s a numbers game. Play the game. Give them no area to spread bullshit uncontested.
- Comment on London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime 3 months ago:
And compare that to the leftist handing social media over to the right uncontested.
- Comment on Why do some users have zero upvotes on their posts/comments? 3 months ago:
This mentality is insane to me. But it explains so much about right vs left.
Like are you a knight of the lemme round table or something. What path has one taken to get to the point that you remove your own upvote on your own post so that is dealt with fairly?
I can’t with you people. It is claustrophobic watching every MAGA individual aggressively take every advantage and turn even their biggest fuck ups into victories. Meanwhile in left leaning spaces people are making sure they take the opportunity to seize every defeat from the clutches of victory
- Comment on Why do some users have zero upvotes on their posts/comments? 3 months ago:
I feel like this should be the motto for leftist every where. It feels so on brand
- Comment on Anon time travels 4 months ago:
I just tried searching up a desk on google because I wanted to see what it looked like in someones room. Instead all I got was 100% links to wayfair for pages. I kept scrolling and it was all wayfair links. I remember when I would search for something and it was links to shit people posted, not businesses.
- Comment on Using AI to create rage bait 4 months ago:
You just showed that you’re no better than a MAGA.
- Comment on Using AI to create rage bait 4 months ago:
Deleting Facebook does not delete MAGA content. What is gone are the views and framing of events from the left.
Facebook’s user base are primarily older, Apolitical low-information voters, community groups, parents, workers, retirees, church groups. These are not MAGA voters, they are regular people who mostly passively scroll and absorb whatever dominates their feed that day.
When large numbers of left leaning users deleted accounts, MAGA content didn’t shrink. It rebalanced the algorithm. Comments and posts became more dominated by right leaning voices because fewer people were there to counter them.
Silence functions as consensus.
When passive scrollers see MAGA or right leaning content, they don’t think ‘this is extreme’ they instead think ‘this must be normal or widely accepted’. Without content that shows where it is wrong, these right leaning messages begin to shift public opinion. You can see this reflected in polls, these are regular folk not MAGA. Public opinion you’ll hear how protestors are violent or burning down cities, vaccinations are dangerous, ANTIFA is a terrorist organization, media is always fake and lying, etc…
Here is something that is very critical to allof this. Research shows a small, committed minority can flip majority opinion once it crosses a critical threshold, around ten percent. That minority does not need to convince everyone. It only needs to dominate what people see often enough to make its position feel normal.
Social consensus through the influence of committed minorities
Here is the abstract
We show how the prevailing majority opinion in a population can be rapidly reversed by a small fraction 𝑝 of randomly distributed committed agents who consistently proselytize the opposing opinion and are immune to influence. Specifically, we show that when the committed fraction grows beyond a critical value 𝑝𝑐≈10%, there is a dramatic decrease in the time 𝑇𝑐 taken for the entire population to adopt the committed opinion.
Does it mean every time when you have a small dominate minority that opinions will flip? No. But it does give evidence to the idea that there is some small value like 10% of a group needed to change their views for the rest of the group to flip 100%.
MAGA understand this, the left seem to be out of the loop on this however. This is why we see right leaning content that is more engaging and users who flood the zone.
In 2024 there was 1.9 billion spent.
Facebook Says 10 Million People in the U.S. Saw Russia-Linked Ads
Far-right news sources on Facebook more engaging
How right-wing influencers are bending reality in Minneapolis
MAGA are using platforms like Facebook to become > committed agents who consistently proselytize the opposing opinion and are immune to influence. And they can only become those agents when the left is not there to challenge them. When we all left Facebook and x and whatever else, we played right into their hand.
You can put hundreds of millions of people in the streets, but if digital spaces are dominated by MAGA frames then public opinion will turn against any protests or efforts.
Online perception shapes IRL legitimacy.
Leaving Facebook feels morally correct. But it’s a retreat.
Public support matters. Views matter. Presence matters. Framing matters. Abandoning the largest passive audience on the internet only serves to accelerates the normalization of MAGA
- Comment on Using AI to create rage bait 4 months ago:
Can you explain how sharing a link like this is helping MAGA
- Comment on Using AI to create rage bait 4 months ago:
Do you mind if I add this as the description
- Comment on Using AI to create rage bait 4 months ago:
The fact that you think having a Facebook account connect to that is immeasurably ignorant.
Not sure what this means
But I’ll digress. You go ahead and justify your contribution to MAGA any way you choose.
You contribute more to MAGA by giving them free access to people’s content rather than fighting against their misinformation. The minute you deleted your account was the minute you start contributing to MAGA success
- Comment on Using AI to create rage bait 4 months ago:
Looks like you went back to watching Bluey. I’ll check back in after the next recorded setting protest and you can let me know how unified you’re feeling.
- Comment on Using AI to create rage bait 4 months ago:
You’re wrong on a few things here.
There are more than enough reasons to be on Facebook right now depending on what you’re trying to accomplish. Personal feelings about the platform are valid reasons to stay off, but they are not good enough if you also expect people to show up to protests. It is callous to dismiss Facebook as a place to organize and use a unified voice while expecting others to take on risks without making efforts at a lower level that can accomplish the same goals.
Whether people like it or not, memes are far more powerful than protests in the current media environment. We have seen massive protests with hundreds of millions of people in the streets and nothing meaningful came from them. Attitudes did not change. Policy did not change. The same politicians are still in power.
To prove my point look at Howard Dean. His entire national political career was ended by a single meme. One moment, repeated endlessly, reached more people and shaped public opinion more than huge demonstrations that required arrests and injuries ever did. That is how influence works today. If there are no measurable goals or direction, then protests are just something people do to feel like they participated. Some of us think effort should happen earlier and at lower risk stages before asking people to put their lives on the line. Expecting people to risk losing an eye, being arrested, or worse just to feel symbolically united and then go home is not strategy.
If you want real outcomes, you start where people already are and use the tools that actually move opinion and behavior right now.