Comment on Instagram Caught Hiding Posts That Say "Immigrants Make the Country Great"
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 1 day agoYea, for sure. Don’t work with each other to find ways to get around these things and overwhelm the platform. No. Just convince each other to leave and let these platforms be run by the right wing people. There’s no consequence to giving these platforms to the opposition. It’s fine.
oliver@lemmy.pifferi.io 1 day ago
There ARE alternatives already and lots of great people are working on these platforms - but as long as everyone stays there „just because of…“, things won‘t change even with these options.
If great things are cloaked under a warning or a NSFW-label for no real reason, it‘s of course up to everyone to choose a different path - but this means losing followers etc. pp. - and embarking on a new platform.
So yes, we can overwhelm this platform - but do people really want this? I‘m not sure. 🤷🏼♂️
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 1 day ago
So how do you promote the new platforms if we all left?
Nobody on the right stops to ask if people want them. I mean Reddit was pretty left leaning. Now it isn’t. So what does it matter if they want you there.
It takes 10% of a group to change the views of 100% of the group. The right knew this and strategically targeted smaller sub Reddit’s before moving to bigger ones. I called this out in 2015. You could see smaller local subs shift. Then those fed into the larger city ones and then eventually the larger ones like r/Canada saw big shifts. They did this everywhere. The left has never understood this tactic I don’t know why. It was so obvious from the start.