he/him DSA ✊ Ally 🏳️‍🌈 Crypto-leftist

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Cake day: January 14th, 2025

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  • Damn near every thread just feels like bots posting based on sentiment. One day, ever user loves idea XYZ but the very same topic on the next day every user hates idea XYZ. None of it feels organic or genuine. Once I learned about dead internet theory and read Manufacturing Consent, it’s easy to see how the vast majority of social media is just nonsense bs











  • it’s gonna implode … twitter is still around and now Musk is even more politically powerful

    The platform has lost over 1 million users and global active users has gone down. Musk’s political power/will was inevitable. He’s an oligarch in a capitalist society, 'nuff said.

    It kind of reminds me of how ppl were hyping up mastadon, blue sky, etc. and honestly who really uses those sites?

    Objectively: many. Bluesky has 27 million users and 3.5 million daily active users. No idea about Mastedon.

    There’s also the language barrier, like are ppl actually gonna seriously try to learn Chinese?

    That doesn’t seem to stop my partner from using it and enjoying the content.

    I just see this as a media hype cycle that will die down in a week or two

    Yea, maybe. A lot of people are just pissed off at the establishment, for many reasons that they can’t put their finger on quite yet. People are downloading this app as a retaliation to whatever nonsense legislation is being passed. Some will stick around, some won’t. The people pissed about the ban aren’t eager to start being active on IG/Threads/X/whatever else because it’s all just the same crap owned by oligarchs, full of mis-/dis-information and toxicity.



  • “non-profit” is just a tax designation, and the companies are still money/profit-driven. I don’t think non-profits are inherently bad, they’re just working within the system for what they perceive as good. In the non-profit my partner works at, the CEO makes $421,968 / year. While not billionaire status, it’s still 7x what my partner makes at the company. It’s exploitative in the Socialist sense.

    I’m just saying, being a “non-profit” (misleading term at best) doesn’t necessarily mean the company is “good” or that the mission is “good”.







  • I am the opposite. I’m becoming more and more dedicated. i’m fighting FUD online, reading a ton of theory, consuming lots of Leftist content, joined an org, went to a meeting finally. I’m all in. No doubts in my mind at all.

    It can be frustrating since it seems like an impossible battle, but I know I’m right. Empirically socialism is a better system. Capitalism has failed in all non-imperial-core countries, and barely functions in the imperial core ones.