Melvin_Ferd
@Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 11 hours 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 days 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? 1 week 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? 1 week ago:
Depends on the job.
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week ago:
How so
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 1 week 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? 1 week ago:
Lol
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 1 week ago:
No
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 1 week ago:
Should they
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 1 week ago:
Yea, cool.
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 1 week ago:
I love reading all the comments from people sharing a similar experience. This is what we deserve
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 1 week ago:
9-5?
You work 9 hrs?
- Comment on Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here? 1 week ago:
100%
CCP was a very strong grip here.
I’m going to get crucified for what I’m going to say. But here is when I noticed it. A few years ago lemmy was one of the only places AI was getting hated on very hard. Like other places had some small posts or conversations but they were pretty mature. But lemmy was hateful.
What I noticed was that it reminded me of something at the tip of my tongue. Then it hit me. The posts were all the same posts I saw in republican spaces. Like word for word same headline. Same energy, same bullshit. Except instead of immigrants it was AI.
I’m going to stop you people right there because I know what the fuck the comments will be already. So just stop. This isn’t a comment about consequences of AI pro or con. It’s a comment about an observation. Something I’ve noticed and the more I saw the more it made sense.
Lemmy was targeted hard and was one of the early generators of anti AI sentiment. It was impressive. What made it all make sense is that as much as we hate AI, it’s here. It’s not going away. Like any new frontier, the people who are first to new land will become the powerful and rich for the next generation. If I’m not fast enough, maybe I can make others slower. If we know CCP is here. And we know countries are trying to race their industries to build new patents and innovations in this new frontier, then it makes sense why such a small site like lemmy full of early adopters was targeted. It’s why posts were reminiscent of the astro turfing we all saw in republican spaces about immigrants. It’s not the there are not problems its about amplification, framing and narrative building.
CCP want western nationals to be behind the ball on innovation. They contributed massively to pushing stories easily on about AI taking jobs, raping your women and stealing our way of life. So if you really want to so CCP in action then search up the early AI posts here if they haven’t already scrubbed them.
- 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)? 3 weeks 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)? 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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? 5 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? 5 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] 1 month ago:
Nope I’m putting them on a pedestal. Get wrecked
- Comment on Reddit is finally entirely dead to me 1 month 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] 3 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.