I remember watching the Arab Spring unfold. Twitter being a guiding light through the darkness for so many people whos government tried to control available communication.
This is the final end run of policy and people pushing for it who have been slinking around in the shadows since Ronald Reagan. It’s a whole bunch of white paranoia and greed rolled up into a reactionary viewpoint and it’s been carefully cultivated for decades.
The one bright point in its implementation, is that the demographic most taken in is the one still dominantly getting it’s information from cable TV. And there’s a reason that as the demographic ages out and dies, cable TV viewership is falling.
You’ve got another 25 years or so until the last of the boomers hit their life expectancies. Hang on.
All that has happened with the consolidation of social media into a propaganda arm for governments and corporations makes the fediverse decentralized network an important step forward in the right direction.
If there were another “??? Spring”, could the fediverse be a tool for communication central to a movement still remains a question.
Empty true, might not always be that way, we’ll have to see. Scattered is an advantage IMO.
I’m more worried about what the instance owners and admins might do when pressured. I suspect widely different treatment depending which country was in spring so to speak.
I remember watching the Arab Spring unfold. Twitter being a guiding light through the darkness for so many people whos government tried to control available communication.
Such high hopes for people back then.
Occupy Wall Street and Me Too, also. I thought we were headed in the right direction. Fast forward… We got this.
This is the final end run of policy and people pushing for it who have been slinking around in the shadows since Ronald Reagan. It’s a whole bunch of white paranoia and greed rolled up into a reactionary viewpoint and it’s been carefully cultivated for decades.
The one bright point in its implementation, is that the demographic most taken in is the one still dominantly getting it’s information from cable TV. And there’s a reason that as the demographic ages out and dies, cable TV viewership is falling.
You’ve got another 25 years or so until the last of the boomers hit their life expectancies. Hang on.
I hope you’re right. But something tells me there isn’t a generational limit on shit-baggery and overt, planet killing greed.
All that has happened with the consolidation of social media into a propaganda arm for governments and corporations makes the fediverse decentralized network an important step forward in the right direction.
If there were another “??? Spring”, could the fediverse be a tool for communication central to a movement still remains a question.
The fediverse is empty and scattered as hell
Empty true, might not always be that way, we’ll have to see. Scattered is an advantage IMO.
I’m more worried about what the instance owners and admins might do when pressured. I suspect widely different treatment depending which country was in spring so to speak.
My point is there is no enough mass here to make a difference.
You can say not yet but the way I see this world moving we’re already past the end.
Not yet… and TBH, if the shit hits it, all that will be needed is a few people well placed within the system, to disseminate news to everywhere.