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      Posts like this are it, even. Hurrdurr we’re so much better circlejerk is grossing me out.

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        Yeah… but having some pride (warranted or not) is good motivation to help build and maintain things.

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      Honest question. What kind of propaganda are you seeing on Lemmy? Nothing comes to mind.

      I mostly see… Linux stuff. And I am not a computer person. Is that propaganda?

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          Not defending tankies, but do you think people on hexbear are paid to do so, or just have different political views? If your definition of propaganda is posting about your own specific political views, then pretty much everything is propaganda.

          I could say that I think FOSS and decentralization are good principles, and that can be considered leftist propaganda.

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            propaganda /prŏp″ə-găn′də/

            noun The systematic propagation of a doctrine or cause or of information reflecting the views and interests of those advocating such a doctrine or cause.

            Material disseminated by the advocates or opponents of a doctrine or cause.

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              Yep, so I’m right, hexbear is just as much propaganda as, say, News, Worldnews, or any other political instance/community.

              Lemmy is very politically active, because to choose lemmy is to reject Reddit. People pick Lemmy over reddit for political reasons, such as preferring FOSS and decentralization, which tend to align far more with leftist beliefs.

              Case closed.

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                Wait wait wait wait wait….

                So is it propaganda or not? The second portion of that definition (or is it a whole second definition?) is quite a bit more vague.

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                  Yes, but not in the same sense of “government sponsored bot propaganda,” and in the same sense as News and Worldnews are propaganda.

                  Hexbear is made up of users that genuinely seem to believe in their ideologies, rather than being sponsored by some state like others have implied.

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                  It is a separate definition. It didn’t copy correctly. I fixed it.

                  Anyway I would say it constitutes propaganda based off the first definition.

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                And that’s fine (more or less, I wish people would be more responsible about using sources that frame things objectively rather than ones that are biased towards their opinion) on political communities. It’s annoying on communities that aren’t made for politics.

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          I’m so sorry you’ve been exposed to political views different from your own, I hope you’ll be able to recover from that one day.

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            Autocracy is not a legitimate political system

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                Nice Latin, but not relevant here

                Tankie is a slang term for autocratic communist

                Autocracy is not a legitimate form of government

                So autocratic propaganda is not just a “different political stance”

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      Propaganda is an organization disseminating information they want others to believe, whether it be true, false, or the typical tactic, a mix of both.

      You pretty much can’t avoid it on social media, the only question is whether the action is direct from the organizations or grassroots support.

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        We could avoid it if people would stop acting like fucking clowns and parroting every stupid thing they’ve ever read that happens to align with their views.

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      In my experience people who talk about the good old days are white and male.

      It was a time when they got their way 100% and everyone else could get fucked.

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        More likely it was when they were kids and without adult responsibilities, or narrow/whitewashed views of the past(as from stories and shows from before their birth)

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          I look back at my childhood as the ‘good ole days’ mostly because of the no responsibilities thing. The more I learn about what stuff was really going on in the 90’s/2000s, the more I see there was no good ole days, just times when I was insulated from the harsh realities of the world.

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            I hold similar views(obviously), but I find something comforting in it. Like, rather than living in a ruined paradise lost by us or our parents, we live in a complicated world where we share the work of trying to make something better with our ancestors.

            (Of course, we also have to figure out how to do that, and, in a complicated world, that can be challenging and lead to conflict)

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      I’ve been around since the 70s and I mostly agree … but on one point I disagree … the ability of humanity to wipe itself out with a nuclear exchange. Back then, even 20, 30 years ago there were a lot level headed leaders who (although we may have disagreed with them) were less radical and would be less likely to consider launching a nuclear weapon for any reason. Back then, we also had a lot of actual war veterans in the public and in government who understood the nature of war … now there are fewer of them around. Most people including those in government now don’t know what war is any more, other than to see it glorified in history books, movies and pop culture.

      So the combination scares me … a society that is complacent to war yet has the weapons to cause world wide destruction if someone disagrees with them.

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      I feel as though there was a “good old days” of the internet. Don’t get me wrong, it was a complete shit show, but it was anonymous, anyone could say anything that they wanted, and there would be few if any consequences. There were ads, but they were generally garbage animated GIFs at worst.

      It wasn’t perfect, but we were free to do what we wanted on the internet, with little to no bearing on our daily lives.

      Now, it’s almost expected that your online activity will be tied to you specifically. In most cases, your legal name is attached to it for everyone to see. If you try to go around without your legal name on everything, then generally you are either severely limited, or outright removed from the platform. Sigh

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        and there would be few if any consequences.

        Meted out by human beings who had to read the thread in aggravatingly linear order - so they were more likely to say ‘you were being kind of a butthead’ instead of ‘how dare you call anyone a butthead.’

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    Yeah, and it’s people arguing about cars, Trump, rich people, work, Linux distros, not pooping, and communism.

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    I’ll have you know that the fake internet points are still here and I will continue to use them to determine my worth in the eyes of my peers.

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    There is plenty of propaganda on lemmy. You just have to realize you will always be fed propaganda and understand there is propaganda on each side of every issue…

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        That is two very different things. One is a terrorist group, the other are just humans trying to live their lives in safety. Same with Israel. The people are humans trying to live their lives in safety, but Netenyahu is incredibly corrupt and reports show that he is secretly propping up Hamas.

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            Its very concentrated here and it is so often lefty nutters. Or certainly my exposure to it is acute on Lemmy compared to my day to day living.

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              Sectarian leftist nutters who seem to be extremely overconfident in their amateurish view of philosophy and politics. “The entire world and all of contemporary history is a conspiracy to discredit Lenin” is honestly a pretty shocking view of the world.

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        You don’t need elephants to smash ants. The Israeli government has gone too far, full stop. I also hope the hostages are returned home safely and a peaceful solution can be found. Calling out atrocities and war crimes perpetrated against the Palestinian people is not pro-hamas propaganda, it’s the first step in accountability.

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    Lemmy is just as much an information warfare platform as anything on Reddit. The Israel/Hamas coverage has confirmed that pretty conclusively.

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      Eh, talking about Isreal/Hamas/Palestine has been a sensitive topic for as long as I can remember. I wouldn’t be surprised if an argument broke out between two Catholics in a church on Sunday if they were talking about it. It’s an extremely devicive issue.

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    Speaking of monetization and propaganda, for your consideration, “Barbie”, now available on Blu-Ray and streaming services everywhere!

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    I like the absence of cumulative fake internet points. I do think it lends a healthier perspective to the community

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      00s internet before corporations colonized it was beautiful. I’m deeply sad that it’s gone but thankful that I got to participate.

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        Amazon: 1994

        eBay: 1995

        Match.com: 1995 (same parent company as tinder)

        Hotmail: 1996 (MS owned in 1997)

        Google: 1998

        PayPal: 1998 (eBay owned in 2002)

        If you look at the dot com bubble, there’s a lot of corporate colonization in the 90s. Many of them didn’t survive their stock crashing in 2000 (pets.com is a good example). Some things were not able to be launched until the internet infrastructure supported it properly (YouTube, for example), so yes some things do date to the 00s. But largely, by 1998, the internet was already on its current trajectory.

        The reason Google was so disruptive at the time was that they didn’t charge websites to get listed – it was a business model that relied on actually finding what people were searching for. The fact that this model was disruptive at the time tells you how corporate it was even by then.