I wish I could tell you but I don’t understand the intricacies of reddit too well, like which threads have real people in them vs. which threads are astroturfed. The best I can do is try and correct someone when they take their pro-West bias as objective truth but that doesn’t go well everytime.
You gotta hit the hi-visibility comments. Usually the top comment, but the sweet spot is the top reply to the top comment – usually the top comment has so many replies you have to click on “see more” and who knows where you’re even located in that sea of 100 replies.
Though Reddit’s algorithm doesn’t take time into account, so people who post first are almost always the top upvoted and they stay there. If you get on a thread a bit too late
Then second comment or second top reply are interesting too, but the best comments are those that garner some points (meaning they’re not down in the “see more” pile), but also don’t have too many replies.
Then if you get someone, even one person, who engages with you in good faith, you can start talking to them and bringing them around. I try to do this by appealing to liberal values at first (i.e. don’t open with Marxist stuff), with varying success. There’s probably better ways. The comments in that AMA are really good, they question the author in good faith without resorting to accusations or premature conclusions.
Tbh even if it’s astroturfed, we need to get our ideas out there. Otherwise all people will see is the propaganda.
I wish I could tell you but I don’t understand the intricacies of reddit too well, like which threads have real people in them vs. which threads are astroturfed. The best I can do is try and correct someone when they take their pro-West bias as objective truth but that doesn’t go well everytime.
You gotta hit the hi-visibility comments. Usually the top comment, but the sweet spot is the top reply to the top comment – usually the top comment has so many replies you have to click on “see more” and who knows where you’re even located in that sea of 100 replies.
Though Reddit’s algorithm doesn’t take time into account, so people who post first are almost always the top upvoted and they stay there. If you get on a thread a bit too late
Then second comment or second top reply are interesting too, but the best comments are those that garner some points (meaning they’re not down in the “see more” pile), but also don’t have too many replies.
Then if you get someone, even one person, who engages with you in good faith, you can start talking to them and bringing them around. I try to do this by appealing to liberal values at first (i.e. don’t open with Marxist stuff), with varying success. There’s probably better ways. The comments in that AMA are really good, they question the author in good faith without resorting to accusations or premature conclusions.
Tbh even if it’s astroturfed, we need to get our ideas out there. Otherwise all people will see is the propaganda.