there was a meme posted here, that very cheekily compared the banning of r/cth and r/t_d to how Alexander Kerensky's provisional government in 1917 tried to ban Lenin's newspaper Pravda and an tsarist restorationist/antisemitic newspaper at the same time to :both-sides: the russian revolution
obviously the stakes are much lower, but it's funny to think about. first as tragedy, then as farce
I unironically look at social media now as a user-created newspaper where site mods/admins are the editors of said newspaper while the userbase are the writers.
Because it's right! There's a reason the newspaper is dying and it's because social media has directly replaced it.
This is a good change as it actually decentralises information, it has VASTLY empowered the spread of information and disempowered old-media.
What we're seeing in the midst of the current information war is a lot of sites like facebook, twitter and reddit attempting to re-centralise control.
You can't do user-submitted content without empowering the left though, as soon as you try to disempower the left algorithmically (the only way you can do anything on social media) what you do is massively empower the far right and turn your platform into a nazi-producing factory.
there was a meme posted here, that very cheekily compared the banning of r/cth and r/t_d to how Alexander Kerensky's provisional government in 1917 tried to ban Lenin's newspaper Pravda and an tsarist restorationist/antisemitic newspaper at the same time to :both-sides: the russian revolution
obviously the stakes are much lower, but it's funny to think about. first as tragedy, then as farce
I unironically look at social media now as a user-created newspaper where site mods/admins are the editors of said newspaper while the userbase are the writers.
i like this analogy a lot
Because it's right! There's a reason the newspaper is dying and it's because social media has directly replaced it.
This is a good change as it actually decentralises information, it has VASTLY empowered the spread of information and disempowered old-media.
What we're seeing in the midst of the current information war is a lot of sites like facebook, twitter and reddit attempting to re-centralise control.
You can't do user-submitted content without empowering the left though, as soon as you try to disempower the left algorithmically (the only way you can do anything on social media) what you do is massively empower the far right and turn your platform into a nazi-producing factory.