I don’t want to see threads content on Lemmy anyways. They’re different platforms for different things. I didn’t go on reddit for twitter posts either.
Even attributing the most evil intentions to Musk & Zuck (not hard to imagine), the Zuck still has some incentive in not completely shitting all over the EU and the GDPR, as well as this year’s new laws regulating large social media platforms.
Whereas Musk seems to just… not care. I don’t think he expects Twitter to survive until the lawsuits go through and is just radicalizing as many people as possible.
I’m not going to open a Threads account, but people that I follow on mastodon are saying that Threads is protecting hate groups like libs of tik tok, and moms for liberty by auto-closing reports against those accounts within 2-3 minutes of them being reported.
Oh fuck. I always thought Zuck=Lizard person stemmed from the complete lack of emotion in his face. And all the other billionaire stereotype shit. Didnt make the antisemitism connection until now.
“He contends that most of the world’s ancient and modern leaders are related to these reptilians, including the Merovingian dynasty, the Rothschilds, the Bush family and the British Royal family.[22]”
How do you translate this to being a conspiracy about Jews specifically?
It’s not specifically about that, but I still see where they’re coming from. When you keep talking to conspiracy theorists they always bring up the Jews eventually. This means that a lot of conspiracy theories that don’t explicitly have anything specific to do with Jews (like 9/11 being faked, to name an example) to still be strongly tied to antisemitism.
My point is not that the Rotschilds were brought up here, but rather that basically every conspiracy theorist given enough time will end up saying that the Jews run the world. This is why every conspiracy theory, even if not explicitly about Jews, is still connected to antisemitism.
Wow, that is a cherry-picked example if I’ve ever seen one. The Rothschilds are mentioned exactly once on this page and it’s in this sentence:
“He [David Icke] contends that most of the world’s ancient and modern leaders are related to these reptilians, including the Merovingian dynasty, the Rothschilds, the Bush family and the British Royal family.”
Including the Rothschilds, as well as several other non-Jewish families. The Rothschilds are part of the conspiracy not because they’re Jewish, but because they’re influential.
While I do agree with that, I don’t think that’s relevant in this case. Most people don’t even know mark is Jewish. Hell I didn’t know that until last week or so. I believe the joke here is that Mark just behaves like an alien pretending to be human. Hence the lizard people conspiracy meme.
So my experience with Mastodon so far has been I tried it out last year, thought man there ain’t shit here, then deleted my account. Giving it another go this time around and realized you gotta follow hashtags and accounts to actually see what you want. I’m still more of a fan of Lemmy, but Mastodon gets better once it’s set up.
I wouldn't say it's as easy at Twitter. Twitter has an algorithm so you can be lazy. Mastadon requires that you actually go find the stuff that you want to see. The upside is that Mastadon doesn't waste your time with a bunch of garbage that "tHe AlGoRiThM" forces in front of you: it just gives you exactly what you asked for, instead. But you can't brainlessly scroll for hours with zero input the way you can with Twitter.
Heck yeah, I mean Hell yeah. I always gravitate towards something I've already watched a million times if I'm streaming to TV. Honestly can't deal with commercial television anymore though.
The problem I have with Mastodon is you need people to get people. And if the people I personally know and follow just aren’t there, I don’t… have fun there. Lemmy is much easier because it doesn’t depend on personal people, but just communities. So even if there are few people, that’s still easy to get more people there because it doesn’t rely on many specific ones.
Yep… I wasn’t ever much into Twitter, I have no “Influencers” or whatever I follow that I could then follow on Mastodon… I found it really hard to find any content that was interesting to me.
Lemmy on the other hand, I find it really easy to find Communities I am interested in
If you’re looking for a good middle ground, maybe kbin will be more your speed? It’s compatible with both Lemmy and Mastodon. So even if you don’t have the right Mastodon users to follow, you can still get content via Lemmy.
Yeah I’ve been trying to fill out my Mastodon by doing tons of research and guides on who to follow, which kinda sucks anyways, but my feed is still empty except for a handful of accounts. Wired is active, so I’m basically just looking at a link aggregate of Wired articles. Might as well just go to wired.com
Agreed. It took me a few tries to get into Mastodon. What helped me was discovering that I could follow hashtags of topics that interest me. That opened the door to interesting people to follow.
or just be a weirdo and reply to Lemmy comments from your Mastodon account like me. Then you don't need people on Mastodon since they're already on Lemmy.
Yeah, that’s true; but I kind of meant actually using Mastodon and its original content, not other ActivityPub content 😅
It’s really cool it’s possible like this though
Totally. Microblogging (twitter alternatives) have a much harder task because they depend on the right users. Especially famous/influential people. Post aggregators (Reddit alternatives) don’t have that constraint.
It’s actually a major, and documented, problem. Despite everyone born after 1995 being considered a digital native, more and more people don’t have any technical aptitude and are wholly reliant on digital support
It goes the other way too, sometimes. At my work, our IT is made up of mostly Gen X and Millenials, yet I was able to guess the admin password on my very first try. This is a big company. They have had the same password for years. If I was a bad actor, I could royally mess things up super quickly.
I think that these people are just about everywhere. I have yet to see an age group where a lot of people don’t struggle with basic troubleshooting.
I agree, although I am more worried for Gen Alpha. With older Gen Z, many of us grew up with parents who didn’t rush to give their kids access to social media. Just having a phone at all was MASSIVE in my peer group when the iPod touch came out in 2007. Technological advancement doesn’t just wait years for us to define our generations easier. I had dial-up internet for years, yet I’m still Gen Z. It could be partially a regional thing, too. Things might be different where you live than where I live.
We should also look into why so many young people are growing up uneducated about technology, and we should collectively work on that. It’s just like any other skill that parents don’t bother to teach their children. You have to learn things from somewhere.
I think that many parents deserve blame in this too, not just the younger end of Gen Z who may still be in middle/high-school. A generation is a very large amount people to lump together, especially with how much we’ve advanced in that time. Play Battlespire (1997), then Oblivion (2006) and you will see a great example of that, over only 9 years.
It’s always a weird cycle with generational stuff. Everyone categorizes everyone else on a large scale.
They grew up on iPads and the iPod Touch, and their family’s old phones. How much do they really use laptops or especially desktops? Maybe they use Google Docs and have never had to really look at their file structure or even understand it.
They never had to learn. Apple and Google spent a shitload of money on UI and UX, so we’ve hit a point where babies, who cannot talk, can navigate a tablet. If that’s your version of the internet, your computer literacy goes way down.
If we can do that here, surely it can't be that hard to just pick a server on there and follow people, right?
I don't expect everyone to be a coding wizard, I'm certainly not, but how are so many people still so tech illiterate in this modern day that what essentially boils down to picking an email host is considered difficult??
Oh no, that’s not good. Somehow that hadn’t crossed my mind until I saw your comment.
Most of the people I know irl use Outlook, Hotmail, their company email, or their private email in addition to Gmail. Some of their reasons are to keep family and business separate, to avoid spam, serious purposes like taxes, forgotten passwords, etc.
My issue is there’s just not enough content yet. I mostly only used Twitter to engage with wrestling fans (for better or worse), but on Mastodon there seems to be less than 10 wrestling fans total.
I bet the ten of you could make a community worth joining. That’s a time commitment though. Could just 9ost stuff from reddit for now to build the community.
Without any actual wrestlers or wrestling journalists on mastodon (which I am neither), there’s not much that could be done to build a community. Plus, I don’t have the time or energy to moderate a community. Plus, posting stuff “from Reddit” kinda violates the whole point of, you know, not using Reddit.
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