Welcome again to everybody! Make yourself at home. Enjoy the expertly designed Stalin flag thing. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is our weekly discussion thread!
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I recommend reading my book The Capitol.
Is real Carl Marks???
Is me
So this is what it’s like to be in the presence of greatness.
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Amazing as always comrade
Silvio Berlusconi, dipshit conservative neolib is now, finally, dead, after 20 years of presidency that destroyed Italy (and unironically, lowered the iq, an interesting story) 🍾
Pls post your best crabs
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀. I would love to hear how that -as you put it- dipshit conservative neolib lowered the average iq in Italy.
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LEOPARD TANKS ARE FUCKING SHIT LMAO AAHAHAHAHHAHAAAA
I’m an early zoomer (you know, genZ-edong) already living in adulthood. Not long ago I was thinking about that time of my teenage years in which I spent way too much time on the internet, during that era ranging from rage faces, nyan cat and the golden age of creepypastas until the peak in popularity of cringe culture youtube channels, all while browsing completely unsupervised. If you are any like me, you will be familiarised with the feeling that you would like to tell your past self to get off the computer, thinking that probably doing so would have saved you from many problems and made your future life somewhat easier.
It has been however only now as I have rejoined internet communities (yes, such as lemmygrad) that I have noticed that the later members of gen Z seem not only to be commiting the same mistakes I myself did, but more severely and with a much greater dependency on the internet than I ever had, neglecting to a worrying level the development of skills as basic as socialization and critical thinking. Is it just me who is becoming a grumpy old man yelling at clouds, or does anyone else share the same concerns?
As one such ‘later’ zoomer, that is very true. Most of us are very alienated. I know some people who spent over half of their day on their phone when they’re not in school. I personally have to force myself to actually read, and talk to people, but I’m making some progress. I’m somewhat lucky for my attention span’s sake that I was a Redditor (no longer) and not a Tiktoker, as that seems to drain brains faster.
Tik Tok’s format is something that I find terrifying, and even more than the rest of internet social media is trying to follow it, such as with Youtube and its shorts. The fact that instant gratification is being promoted for profit so badly that we have now a flow of videos with Subway Surfers gameplays on the side not to lose watchers’ attentions is simply sinister.
At least back then we fried our neurons watching things like these for three and a half minutes without blinking instead.
Definitely. I think not much is being emphasized in the role of the internet in affecting our own social development.
It is definitely not natural for a few clicks of a button to lead us to the most vile and disgusting views known to man being espoused.
Nor is it normal to see other terminally online people deride others for deviating from their specifically flavoured groupthink.
It isn’t healthy nor normal. The pseudo-anonymous nature of the internet can’t facilitate healthy emotional responses, especially when we disagree about things.
Over here, unlike the rhetoric found in the West where the youth are incredible “based” or “left-wing”, our recent elections involved the lowered voting age of 18 year olds.
And you know what happened? Most of the disenchanted Malay youth here voted for a borderline fascist, religious and reactionary Islamic Party.
They gained prominence through the supposedly “Chinese-controlled” TikTok.
This is also why I push back on “vulgar developmentalism”, and are much more critical in that regard to those that say any sort of capitalist development is good as it is supposedly “progressive”.
I admit that my own existence relies upon the fact that my country rapidly industrialized. But now the superstructure is actively inhibiting for further development of the productive forces, and a lot of the present contradictions I see now in this country can never be managed sufficiently under a bourgeois dictatorship.
I went on a bit of a tangent but my point is, the internet needs to be more heavily regulated, personally. China’s restricted “gaming hours” on weekdays for children I think is a good example that should be copied in other countries.
My brain is destroyed from the internet.
Last week eastern North America was plagued by smoke for multiple days thanks to forest fires in Canada. Anyone who thought the west would be free from the environmental crisis, so they could keep on polluting was wrong.
I hope you all have a great week :D
“you too”
– V. I. Castro
I actually forgot that Shit Reactionary Says existed for the past few months. Actually made my experience here really pleasant.
I unblocked it recently to see what’s up but quickly blocked it again.
I don’t know how some of you all do it.
There is only so much AnonymousNazi has to say before it gets really boring and the same arguments get rehashed over and over.
Also I expected it to become more active since the recent surge in users but seems like it’s been steady.
recent surge in users
I think this is because NSFW posts are disabled by default (at least when registering using the web UI), so most new users don’t know it exists
Ahh makes sense.
I was subscribed to it initially hoping to find funny content, the kind of commentary about communism that you see on the internet once in a while that is so bad that it turns around all the way into being good again, in a comedic way. Instead, it’s just a compilation of all things reactionary ever said on the internet.
Also, of the 40 posts currently on the community’s front page, 22 are all made by the same user, who I suppose just goes there to post every time they find content posted by a liberal/libertarian/fascist. It is frankly a bad community, and you did well by blocking it.
Yup. Although some posts and comments are decent. Just sad that a lot of it is low hanging fruit.
I was added to the lemmy maintainers private matrix chat. Shit is getting real.
Is there more you can say?
I guess the maintainers liked my contributions. It probably helps that I’ve helped them with the big websocket API removal and helped devs interested in contributing get their local environment set up.
That’s awesome! Thank you for your service. o7
Looks like we can add “blahaj zone” instance to the likes of sopuli and beehaw. As in “gits, who come here and comment with lib takes”
The admin of that instance has been friendly with lemmygrad users, but a lot of the new users on that instance are dronies.
So does it look like the rest of Blajah zone is safe and just 196 went ultra-reactionary? The mod on there has gone super anti-“tankie” the last 3 days and I had originally had homes for that group, but it seems like all of it is going downhill… I hope that the admin keep us federated at least
I don’t know for certain, but I noticed most of the dronies throwing a fit were in 196. We never had problems with that instance before that.
Unequivocally racist too.
Perpetuating the totally not chauvinist sentiment of hurr durr china steals my intellectual property and doesn’t innovate and gets like 20+ upvotes.
To be expected considering just how bad r/196 was getting. I think despite being what seemed 50% trans (part of the reason I as a transperson was on there) the community flocked to constantly defend vaush to the point I started realizing the community was universally starting to either have r/vaush overlap or r/tankjerk overlap very commonly.
After all the “kick tankies out of r/196” did come up months back on r/196. The rapidly growing amount of Vaushites(muh anarcho-natoism) and fascists blatantly joining without protest started positioning the well so bad I started avoiding it. They’re going down the slippery sloop so fast I expect them to defederate by July, shame as it could of brought back what r/196 used to be before the brainrot.
they have said anyone from Lemmygrad is on their last chance already, no warning, no comment removal just a ban. I feel like it is overly harsh, but I also knew nothing about the reddit comunity it came from
Its reddit community used to be a more accepting leftist space with a lot of queer humor. But over time the Libs slowly got worse. I remember when I first joined it felt like it was run by actual leftists (mostly baby leftists and anarkiddies but still) The first “kick tankies of of r/196” wasn’t as well received as this one…
So when Ukraine war broke out they got… So much worse. I have no hope for the instance tbh and am glad they banned me, if only for 3 days as apparently I’m only a borderline tankie lmao. We have our own 196 which is much better tbh.
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I really liked the Reddit protest the last few days. Only a few of my niche subs were still active and I liked the content I saw. It was so peaceful and quiet. Sadly a lot of the other subs came back on (peak Reddit ‘activism’, btw) so I left the app again.
Pro-tip: Never look at an old man browsing history, youtube feed, etc…
Having worked at a bank, the amount of porn and OnlyFans they buy is astronomically insane.
I visited an uncle that day and the dude was literally watching bikini tryouts on youtube while i was there and dude did it so much that he didn’t realize it was weird. And his feed was ALL half naked ladies.
Oh man I am not liking this Reddit exodus
Lemmygrad is down every 7 minutes it seems
Yes and for some reason posts I made from 9 months ago are now getting weird hostile comments as well. Usually in standard Reddit ‘tankie authoritarian bad’ fashion as well. I don’t mind new users but the moment this place turns into another Reddit I’ll probably be out of here. I could’ve just stayed at Reddit itself for that.
Its a common Reddit tactic to sort by most upvotes and then attack those posts /comments no matter how old they are. Its classic Reddit brain tactics.
I hate how liberals try to infect every place on the internet like it belongs to them.
Worst comes to worst we could always defederate.
Lemmygrad admins:
Give it a few weeks, a couple months at most. The overwhelming amount of newcomers will get tired and leave again for Reddit; it’s easier for them to accept the mediocre official app and the permanent disappearance of third party APIs than to accept opinions dissenting from mainstream liberal politics to exist in the same space as theirs without repression.
I doubt that’ll happen, most liberal instances block us and we can just ban individual anticommunists from lemmy.ml when they comment
