cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/58892455
The comment: https://old.reddit.com/r/lgbt/comments/1jewztr/trump_freezes_175m_of_upenn_funds_over_trans_women/mimzz9u/
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Donald Trump / White House has lost “Hearts and Minds” to Vlad Putin / Kremlin information warfare, KGB / FSB mental manipulation has won the Hybrid Warfare against USA / NATO
Rewind to December 2013 when this information warfare started
Please study this December 20, 2013 story in The Atlantic about Putin’s announcement of gender topics being the way he is going to manipulate the world in information warfare.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/12/vladimir-putin-conservative-icon/282572/
December 20, 2013
By Brian Whitmore
Vladimir Putin is calling on the conservatives of the world to unite—behind him. The Kremlin leader’s full-throated defense of Russia’s “traditional values” and his derision of the West’s “genderless and infertile”
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For Reference, see also: “This fusion of despotism and postmodernism, in which no truth is certain, is reflected in the craze among the Russian elite for neuro-linguistic programming and Eriksonian hypnosis: types of subliminal manipulation based largely on confusing your opponent” from October 2011.
The other day I was looking through posts on Lemmy and came across a long list of posts solely linked to reddit, for the purpose of sharing reddit content. I think to be appropriately rid of these negative influences Lemmy should consider blocking links to these predatory sites.
I was looking through posts on Lemmy and came across a long list of posts solely linked to reddit
If they copy the content of the Reddit over to Lemmy and other places, I think that’s a good thing. Public resources of information, Usenet roots of social media, are incredibly important. Reddit (content) isn’t built upon private social media, it’s primary public shared social media, and preservation and community accessible content (advertising free on Lemmy) is valuable to the whole World Wide Web / Pale Blue Dot. We need more and more Wikipedia style content that is contributed to all humanity and not so many people obsessed with egoism and self-centered content creation.
Agreed. Let’s just eliminate the link so that no clicks go their way. I love Wiki but self-centered comments have their place. I think getting people to question the whole fandom paradigm would be a healthy add on.
I love Wiki but self-centered comments have their place.
Really? I said: “many people obsessed with egoism and self-centered content creation”
And you support this? Egomania like Elon Musk?
They instill many emotions that are helpful in promoting discourse. Not all but you have to take the bad with the good.
What boggles my mind is that people actually spend LOTS of money to buy those award thingies and they send that to each other, the abject level of consoomerism.
And of course all those mods working FOR FREE, generating content and ad revenue for Reddit and getting shit in return, in fact they tried some small rebellion with the 3rd party API thing a few months back and Reddit admins told them to STFU and reopen the subs or face consequences… and they did, the level of narcissism to sell yourself for no money just to keep some sort of “status” as a mod… sad on so many levels.
What boggles my mind is that people actually spend LOTS of money to buy those award thingies and they send that to each other, the abject level of consoomerism.
Actually that’s what people do to Mastodon and Lemmy operators, they donate money to the owners directly. I’m far more for that than psychologically manipulative advertising and marketing of the Edward Bernays style funding the site.
I think Reddit in 2022 should have returned to open source like they were in earlier decades, fully release the source code, became a non-profit corporation, fully disclosed their accounting / financed like Beehaw does, an been run by donations only - renouncing advertising. Openly publish moderation logs and openly disclose what they are removing / ongoing SPAM attacks, etc. Be the the long-form (not short-length Twitter-length) Google Search hit-results website leader that appeals to book readers ( Read-it ) length consumers.
Instead, they went the opposite of a non-profit Google Search engine destination for research and discussion and became a source of marketing and advertising content for Corporate America values / Elon Musk values.
