Yes indeed. Both sides are heavily propagandizing social media so it’s good to be skeptical and insist on credible sources. Here’s an article about a pro-Palestine disinformation campaign on twitter trying to get Americans to stay out of the conflict, for example. I wouldn’t assume everyone who disagrees with you is a paid shill, nor would I assume that those who agree with you aren’t; I find it’s better to stick to the issues at hand than try to divine the motivations of random internet strangers.
Also, I suspect things are probably better here in that regard than on other platforms, as the feddiverse is still flying under the radar for those seeking to shape public opinion.
I never said anything about paid shill. Here’s a video where someone walks through the app. I don’t think people get paid, but they do earn badges and points and whatnot for spreading propaganda and mass-reporting content that’s posted to the app.
Thing is, I don’t have a horse in this race. Looking on from the outside what’s happening is disgusting, be it using hospitals as shields, thereby endangering people there, or turning off access to water to over two million people. There’s no right side here.
There’s also fuck all I can do about it so I generally just keep out of things. It’s not my mess to deal with.
That’s fascinating, they crowdsourced and gamified propaganda by weaponizing corporate sensitivity to offensiveness. Thanks for sharing that link, although the host definitely is promoting his own biases while showcasing the app, it was very informative and worth watching. Reading a little more into this, it appears Hamas has adapted to this technique by relying on Telegram to spread their messaging since the other platforms have removed them for extremist content.
This makes me appreciate another advantage of the feddiverse, the mass reporting techniques that this approach relies on to silence dissent might work on profit-driven social media companies, but here mods can use their own discretion rather than prioritizing financial and PR motivations for what gets removed like the for-profit companies have to.
Oh yeah. Caelan definitely have their own biases, they’re quite clearly very left on the political spectrum, but I couldn’t find another video or article where people are going through the app in the same fashion. Search engines mostly gave me rubbish about the ongoing conflict which isn’t at all what I was looking for. Google doesn’t work anymore.
Yes indeed. Both sides are heavily propagandizing social media so it’s good to be skeptical and insist on credible sources. Here’s an article about a pro-Palestine disinformation campaign on twitter trying to get Americans to stay out of the conflict, for example. I wouldn’t assume everyone who disagrees with you is a paid shill, nor would I assume that those who agree with you aren’t; I find it’s better to stick to the issues at hand than try to divine the motivations of random internet strangers.
Also, I suspect things are probably better here in that regard than on other platforms, as the feddiverse is still flying under the radar for those seeking to shape public opinion.
I never said anything about paid shill. Here’s a video where someone walks through the app. I don’t think people get paid, but they do earn badges and points and whatnot for spreading propaganda and mass-reporting content that’s posted to the app.
Thing is, I don’t have a horse in this race. Looking on from the outside what’s happening is disgusting, be it using hospitals as shields, thereby endangering people there, or turning off access to water to over two million people. There’s no right side here.
There’s also fuck all I can do about it so I generally just keep out of things. It’s not my mess to deal with.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Here’s a video where someone walks through the app.
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
That’s fascinating, they crowdsourced and gamified propaganda by weaponizing corporate sensitivity to offensiveness. Thanks for sharing that link, although the host definitely is promoting his own biases while showcasing the app, it was very informative and worth watching. Reading a little more into this, it appears Hamas has adapted to this technique by relying on Telegram to spread their messaging since the other platforms have removed them for extremist content.
This makes me appreciate another advantage of the feddiverse, the mass reporting techniques that this approach relies on to silence dissent might work on profit-driven social media companies, but here mods can use their own discretion rather than prioritizing financial and PR motivations for what gets removed like the for-profit companies have to.
Oh yeah. Caelan definitely have their own biases, they’re quite clearly very left on the political spectrum, but I couldn’t find another video or article where people are going through the app in the same fashion. Search engines mostly gave me rubbish about the ongoing conflict which isn’t at all what I was looking for. Google doesn’t work anymore.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Google doesn’t work anymore.
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.