Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
On this server we are often victim of this stuff, i hope we can all improve
I kinda disagree. Social media, even this very harmless version of it, is great for building opinions. But it’s not great at making stuff happen in the real world. I will never meet anyone from Lemmy. It might be comforting to write about guillotines here, posting angry articles, but we in general and especially you Americans need to leave this save zone and actually do something. Fast. With your bodies. In the real world. Show up! Being online is a trap, it makes you feel like you’re participating while it eats you time and kills your energy. Greta Thunberg stopped going to school, wrote a sign and sat down.
Get Signal, gather some local people and do stuff.
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I agree it can be a challenge. Showing up and meeting a handful of people in the rain can be frustrating and disappointing. But there is no other way and these are real life experiences you will talk and bond about. Sorry for the pep talk. :)
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I’m not saying you should leave. I love Lemmy! Use it as a tool, not a solution. And a messenger is much more helpful to organize you locally.
Let me put it this way - would you go protest if you weren’t sure anyone else were going?
The likely answer is no, especially if it’s a protest that would get you arrested.
Social media isn’t great, but with the full oligarchical takeover of mass media outlets (Sinclair, Fox), it’s become one of the few avenues left for the public to voice (and subsequently act on) dissent.
This is the overall point I’m trying to make - yes, posting won’t get the job done, but it can help if you do it right. And without people constantly standing up and speaking out about what’s happening, no change is possible.
Because no one wants to be the only person at a protest, and unless other people know its happening, it’ll be a party of one.
The 50501 protests have mostly been organized through Social media
Are they working?
is any protest or rally or general strike working? to me looks like they became just another thing
in the past they probably worked because the threat of violence was real, now it’s just walking together mostly. If you don’t undermine their comforts or their money you can have as many people in the street you want but that’s not gonna do anything if it’s just showing up once and bye
I can’t predict what the outcome will be. It might fizzle out, or it might gather momentum and produce a result.
We’ve already seen that it seems to be effecting Tesla’s stock price. I think either way it’s important for people to see others openly defying all this, if only to prevent the chilling effect that Germany seemed to go through by the lack of visible resistance to the Nazis.
imho, you are too deep down into the path to fascism right now. Stock prices won’t change the plan of becoming Russia 2.0. Don’t need capial market value when you have de facto slaves, oligarch power and isolationist economy.
btw i was talking about “protest or rally or general strike” in general, not only US. In italy they have not much value anymore. Indefinite strikes (i mean “we strike until you give us what you want”) and focussed strikes (as in one single company) are the ones that work. + all the little stuff that won’t make headlines or virality on social media because ‘‘person convinced their whole department that that thing was bad and they fixed it’’ is not cool enough
I kinda disagree. Social media, even this very harmless version of it, is great for building opinions. But it’s not great at making stuff happen in the real world. I will never meet anyone from Lemmy. It might be comforting to write about guillotines here, posting angry articles, but we in general and especially you Americans need to leave this save zone and actually do something. Fast. With your bodies. In the real world. Show up! Being online is a trap, it makes you feel like you’re participating while it eats you time and kills your energy. Greta Thunberg stopped going to school, wrote a sign and sat down.
Get Signal, gather some local people and do stuff.
Edit:
I agree it can be a challenge. Showing up and meeting a handful of people in the rain can be frustrating and disappointing. But there is no other way and these are real life experiences you will talk and bond about. Sorry for the pep talk. :)
Edit:
I’m not saying you should leave. I love Lemmy! Use it as a tool, not a solution. And a messenger is much more helpful to organize you locally.
Let me put it this way - would you go protest if you weren’t sure anyone else were going?
The likely answer is no, especially if it’s a protest that would get you arrested.
Social media isn’t great, but with the full oligarchical takeover of mass media outlets (Sinclair, Fox), it’s become one of the few avenues left for the public to voice (and subsequently act on) dissent.
This is the overall point I’m trying to make - yes, posting won’t get the job done, but it can help if you do it right. And without people constantly standing up and speaking out about what’s happening, no change is possible.
Because no one wants to be the only person at a protest, and unless other people know its happening, it’ll be a party of one.
https://slrpnk.net/post/19479757/14397956
The 50501 protests have mostly been organized through Social media. As was the Arab Spring.
At some point mainstream media and corporate social media can silence that movement if they wish, which would damage its ability to organize.
Federated social media would not be so easily silenced, and would be able to continue to operate and act as a place e I’d organization regardless.
That’s a powerful ability to make things happen in real life.
Are they working?
is any protest or rally or general strike working? to me looks like they became just another thing
in the past they probably worked because the threat of violence was real, now it’s just walking together mostly. If you don’t undermine their comforts or their money you can have as many people in the street you want but that’s not gonna do anything if it’s just showing up once and bye
I can’t predict what the outcome will be. It might fizzle out, or it might gather momentum and produce a result.
We’ve already seen that it seems to be effecting Tesla’s stock price. I think either way it’s important for people to see others openly defying all this, if only to prevent the chilling effect that Germany seemed to go through by the lack of visible resistance to the Nazis.
imho, you are too deep down into the path to fascism right now. Stock prices won’t change the plan of becoming Russia 2.0. Don’t need capial market value when you have de facto slaves, oligarch power and isolationist economy.
btw i was talking about “protest or rally or general strike” in general, not only US. In italy they have not much value anymore. Indefinite strikes (i mean “we strike until you give us what you want”) and focussed strikes (as in one single company) are the ones that work. + all the little stuff that won’t make headlines or virality on social media because ‘‘person convinced their whole department that that thing was bad and they fixed it’’ is not cool enough