How's it feel understanding just how despised you professional liars are? At last, we can talk back to them and let them know just how much damage they're doing.
How's it feel understanding just how despised you professional liars are? At last, we can talk back to them and let them know just how much damage they're doing.
why would a community have an advertising budget? every new member they take on is extra cost on their end with 0 methods to actually monetise them; the moment they pull anything, their members can move to another server that communicates with their server anyway unless they literally lock it down and do not federate with anyone else
to put pay to this claim, a lot of servers are not down with how poorly moderated the biggest entrypoint to the fediverse, mastodon dot social, is so they completely block them off. can you be a central node if a subsection of the network can just ignore you like that?
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Like the Us government opens an official instance or something?
Official, no. But National Endowment for Democracy, USAid, etc.
Why even hide? Couldn't they just ask and enough people would willingly hitch there wagons to nato.instance to start some sort of protacted yankee's war against anyone who blocks them? Or am I overestimating the interest level a bit.
Nobody likes feds, probably not even the feds.
This is a fair point.
Sure, but the point is to manufacture consent, which works by making you think people are coming to their opinions organically. That requires the illusion of multiple, non-affiliated sources; otherwise it's just open propaganda.