They’re not the only ones.
Reddit stole the r/NoKings subreddit and has locked it out. They claim it’s up for adoption as of 5-months-ago but will of course never cede it to the organizers of No King’s.
ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN etc., have barely mentioned it, and it doesn’t remotely come up in Google News save for a sparse few pages of local news stories.
The only good news from representing my area is that while the protest was half the size of past ones, general support from people on the road was much higher with much less dissent.
Yanis Varoufakis is right, we are heading into technofeudalism.
This is pretty awesome. It will force people to use platforms that are ACTUALLY secure, like Signal.
Meta, in conjunction with the US government, is going to make it harder to surveil protesters. How elegant!
There is only one correct answer: stop using Facebook
I remember when the backlash to Xitter was pretty high, culturally. I asked why our company was still using Xitter.
Crickets. And even after he gave the Nazi salute, still no change.
The answer is - “that’s where everyone is”. They aren’t wrong. The network effect sucks.
Meh. “That’s where everyone is” it’s more like that’s where all the bots and algorithmic gatekeeping are. I get way more engagement on mastodon than I ever did on twitter post-2012 algorithm shakeup. Before the algorithmic censorship, I got lots of engagement on twitter. But that twitter hasn’t existed for a long time. When I got on mastodon it was like oh. The algorithm is the entire problem. No wonder OWS and the Arab spring were so big. No wonder the algorithms came after them.
There were protests all over my city yesterday and I can find barely any coverage. I even looked at Reddit, which was flooded with No Kings pictures back in March, and there was barely anything for the events yesterday. Definitely sus as hell.
This is why protest has to be disruptive. A bunch of people holding funny signs in a park on a Saturday afternoon doesn’t have an impact.
I hate to say it, but yeah. Look @ France. They fuck shit up whenever the government tries to fuck with them, and have a higher standard of living as a result.
Oh random election rules that changed all at once?
It’s like 2024 again. This is part of the reason so many of us are here on Lemmy or BlueSky or whatever, we need to figure out alternative means of discussion.
This is the very least shocking thing about Tech Bros. I remember laughing right in the face of someone that told me they had to be on Parler because “Big Tech” was so liberal that they kept canceling conservatives and shadow banning them, etc.
I asked what kinds of “conservative” things they were posting on “Big Tech” that supposedly resulted in that?
You attempt to use one of the instruments of your oppression against the system that wields it. That was never going to work.
Meta platforms has 4 billion active users worldwide. That is an insane amount of power in the hands of one person.
No surprises as to why. Indivisible should immediately file the equivalent of an amicus brief to Brazilian courts because they are having these so-called “glitches” with Lula’s campaign as well.
Well, the obvious answer is that he’s a fascist oligarch that controls media outlets so…
