I still remember all the talk about the end of data scarcity in the early days. Lots of concern that we now have a new frontier that can replicate information endlessly but that they’ll try to lock it away behind paywalls and limit who can have what.

I was just thinking of communities that could act as discussions or KB posts.

I understand that some sites don’t want meta lawyers coming at them. They’re monolithic and have other infrastructure concerns that can be targeted. But lemmy solves some of those issues. Federation seems like it can revive some things that corporate owned internet has been trying to wipe clean.

Maybe the end goal of lemmy is to end up like reddit. A place to advertise and hawk products and entertainment. I really don’t know enough about it. But from what I see, I’m just wondering if it’s worth discussing.

Yes actually.

You nailed something that I’m actually concerned about. I heard this idea the other week and it makes sense to me.

Old heads saw the internet grow. We saw lots of different stages of development towards the corporate owned billboards that it is now. Younger people were raised by it so it’s all normalized to them.

There’s things older people see and go “that ain’t right” that younger people don’t. This begs the question, are there things older people should be preserving or bringing attention to that aint right or are am I just in my “I walked two miles uphill both ways” phase of life

What kicked this off was a desire to scrape Facebook groups to build a dataset. I just wanted to play around with different things to see patterns or sentiment analyses.

Seems like there was this shift or bifurcation online about a decade or so ago. Information was everywhere. Now it isn’t.

I’ve been interested in methods to scrape social media. The more measures they create to block scraping the more I want to scrape it.

I’m interested in getting datasets to play around and analyze. Personal project stuff and just to learn and upgrade myself while doing something I’m interested in.

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Holy shit, this doesn’t work. It’s 2026. You cannot get the runway you need to ever make this happen. None of you even bothered to create the runway. You handed the runways over to the people you want to protest.

The very last thing you should be doing is deleting any of that. You need to be creating multiple accts. Building groups. Building hype. Spreading information and stopping theirs. You have no business ever suggesting a general strike until you solve how to control the messaging.

General strike is maximum effort. Online action is much lower effort. If you can not find success at lower effort activities, you’ll never get success at higher effort. You don’t walk into a marathons without running 5km just because you have big feelings. Need to work up to it.

Something like that. I see a weird pattern with articles about AI and articles about immigration in right wing circles. They’re the same. Like the themes and focus in the headlines for each all seem to be reused

Unless we figure out a way to organize better, adapt to modern tools and get rid of the of guard nothing will change.

My conspiracy is that social media is being used to make every one much more callouse and cold to each other. That’s where they break the country. The bots knew it was very easy to manipulate the left to scare them off digital spaces. Now they have free reign to make all kinds of groups and posts filled with comments uncontested. Stuff like Pretti good shot on any shooting, hundreds of them. Over time it changes how people think since there is no push back. As it pushes people to be angrier and pissed off, it moves the public opinion away from any leftist since they’re seen as very weak and ineffective

Facebook is a mess, no question. But if your goal is to counter MAGA narratives, it’s still the best return on effort right now. That’s where the misinformation is spreading fastest, and it’s where more people are needed to consistently challenge lies and keep them from going unopposed.

There was a time that this was something we made fun of. Now this is the goal

Let this be a reminder to never turn away from piracy. It needs to constantly be in the background and if any company gets like they always do, then it comes back out. But if we let the knowledge fade away then it’s impossible to rebuild it.

Can’t be logical here. This is a topic that’s like discussing immigration with Republicans.