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I find it weird that people still self censor themselves on platforms like Reddit
Front-page posting / subreddits have spam filters that unalive your comment silently if you trigger keyword matching. I've been blogging these in 2024 and 2025 on another platform. You are not notified, the comment is not published for a single second, and it is done by owners, not the subreddit moderators.
Still being on Reddit in 2025 is a leopards eating your face situation.
Still being on Reddit in 2025 is a leopards eating your face situation.
By that Twitter-length message Tweet-thinking logic of short-simple reactionary thinking, living in the Untied States of America, living in the USA, is a leopards eating your face situation. By that same logic, if someone gets wrongfully arrested for protesting in public, nobody should protest in public spaces... because it is a "still being in public" then "leopards eating your face" situation.
Very common in year 2024 and year 2025 to see these kind of social media / HDTV media systems comments on every single media platform, Reddit, Lemmy, Mastodon, Fox News, Newsmax. As if everything can be answered by copying Donald Trump and Elon Musk X media thinking, Kremlin Surkov media answers and solutions.
“Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.” - “The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects” by media analyst Marshall McLuhan and graphic designer Quentin Fiore, and coordinated by Jerome Agel. It was published in March 1967
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“Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a (year 1995) foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance. As I write, the number-one videocassette rental in America is the movie Dumb and Dumber. “Beavis and Butthead” remain popular (and influential) with young TV viewers. The plain lesson is that study and learning—not just of science, but of anything—are avoidable, even undesirable.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1995
If I had the freedom and opportunity to emigrate casually, I would. I can live with not turning my life upside down and leaving my family behind. I couldn't live with still supporting Reddit and Twitter because I can get more clout there than on Lemmy.
Likewise, not ever being in public is simply impossible so it's another worthless comparison.
You posted a lot of words, yes, but it was a Twitter-quality take.
You posted a lot of words, yes, but it was a Twitter-quality take.
Oh, so you followed every link and read every citation I provided. That sure was quick.
If I had the freedom and opportunity to emigrate casually, I would.
I get the impression that all serious topics are amusing and casual to you when you get on your social machine, Lemmy media environment.
I can live with not turning my life upside down and leaving my family behind.
But your logic is that if a single bug is in the soup, the whole restaurant should be shut down forever. That any human imperfection means you give up on all Reddit users for all the rest of time. Or am I misunderstanding your Twitter-length reply message, reaction comment? Reactionary thinking system?
You are messaging me to belittle my efforts to RESCUE Reddit Users, as I also try to Rescue Fox News viewers... That's how I took your message. Shit-talk insult-talk !MasturbatoryEgoism@lemm.ee reply message about how I don't know what I'm doing using Reddit in year 2025.
I can get more clout there than on Lemmy.
See, I'm not here in April 2025 for my personal "clout". "influence or power, especially in politics or business." I'm there to Rescue Americans from the 5,000 Kremlin + Cambridge Analtyica alternate reality screen games that are on Lemmy, Reddit, Bluesky, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, ChatGPT, etc.
I'm here (and on Reddit) because my nation (USA) lost an information war to Russia, and we need to start cleaning up the mess and learning lessons of how we lost and how we can progress and do better. !HybridWarLost@lemm.ee
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“The display, which was called 'Can Democracy Survive the Internet?' was dedicated to a 'global election management' company called Cambridge Analytica. Cambridge Analytica claimed to have gathered 5,000 data points on every American voter online: what you liked and what you shared on social media; how and where you shopped; who your friends were... They claimed to be able to take this imprint of your online self, use it to understand your deepest drives and desires, and then draw on that analysis to change your voting behaviour. The boast seemed to be backed up by success: Cambridge Analytica had worked on the victorious American presidential campaign of Donald Trump; it had also run successful campaigns for US Senator Ted Cruz (twice); and others all across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America.”
― Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality, 2019
The infantalization of the internet solely so that advertisers feel comfortable is becoming a problem.
Sometimes people need to talk about heavy topics like suicide or sexual assult in a way that's mostly anonymous. Ads are a whole separate issue, but I don't really feel any different about them based on the content surrounding them. Bounty can still sell paper towels if someone says "fuck" next to the ad.
I don’t really feel any different about them based on the content surrounding them. Bounty can still sell paper towels if someone says “fuck” next to the ad.
There is an even deeper problem described by Neil Postman in his 1985 book "Amusing Ourselves To Death" !BackTo1985@lemm.ee
I don’t really feel any different about them based on the content surrounding them. Bounty can still sell paper towels if someone says “fuck” next to the ad.
Reddit, Lemmy, Bluesky, Twitter, YouTube, comments and advertisements inserted into the middle of content can wreck context in the human brain, entirely shifting the tone. With targeted advertising, two people reading the same story about Ukraine being attacked by Russia come out with different understandings because one person was sold "penis pill" advertising messages in the middle of the story content, another person sold "deodorant for women". Many of the problems we have in current times with audiences / population / society is due to people having fragmented comprehension and understanding, unable to grasp complex ideas and only able to listen to the marketing and advertising provided by the billionaires to provide "free Internet" content.