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PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Honestly it’s a strong contender. I would add to that what Gene Sharp calls the “atomization” of society, the destruction of “third places” and community organizations in favor of producer-to-consumer mass media. A lot of the revolutions of the past started in beerhalls and coffee shops. We don’t have that. We have Facebook. A lot of people are upset, but we don’t feel like it’s too much we can do about it, we just feel bad and helpless.

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KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Ooh definitely. Everything from childhood is so structured: Structured youth sports; Structured socialization through social media; Structured dating with algorithmic match-ups; Even applying for jobs now is largely done through apps. Every system feels so obfuscated and de-personalized. As Gen Z growing up in the 21st century, the internet was the only place I could actually meet people, but for the last decade those spaces have been restricted by major corporations and inflicted with this “Protect the Kids” surveillance mania.

It feels like independence and social freedom have just been forgotten. I’m genuinely worried that young USAmericans do not understand the value of autonomy and anonymity, because they’ve grown up in a world with everything structured and surveilled – and have grown used to funneled from station-to-station, even outside of school and work. It’s hard to form a revolution movement when the masses have had a mixture of learned helplessness and “hustle culture” ingrained in them.

There’s a dating app, and a social media app, but no “Revolution” app. ChatGPT isn’t designed to suggest violence to you, but it can post a hotline copline that can tell you to go to a hospital. There are social media posts for BetterHelp and “Hims”/“Hers” (mentioned in article), while the posts calling for bricks in windows get suppressed, shadow-banned, or outright blasted. The more I think about this, the more I realize how vital that internet control was.

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- PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  
  There’s a dating app, and a social media app, but no “Revolution” app.
  
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  - KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    put on App Store aaaaand it’s gone. And Google’s blocking it on Android.
    
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    PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    We’ll just call it “Not a Revolution” App. Like Elon Musk with the flamethrowers.
    
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- fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  You’ve got a point here
  
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