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Facebook way back in the day was the shit. Everything was super private outside of groups which served as the public square. I haven't found any federated platforms that come close. It might be seven or eight years now since I logged in.

One thing to consider is that conservatives are likely paying for progressives to see their content, and geeks tend to have liberal views and follow the harm principle without many conditions.

Otherwise, it really shows the demographics of the people who play Warhammer. Before my sister transitioned, she played Warhammer and was a socialist but had a lot of really wehraboo interests. She has been talking about getting back into it, but she passes really well and imagines how it would go with the neckbeards.

I agree. It's important to remember the only "conspiracy" is making money and keeping people on the platform. That said, it will cause people to go down rabbit holes. The solution isn't as simple as "show people content they disagree with" because they either ignore it or it creates another rabbit hole. For example, it would mean that progressives start getting bombarded with Tim Pool videos. I don't believe Tim is intentionally "alt right" but that's exactly why his videos are the most dangerous. They consist of nothing but conservative rage bait with a veneer of progressiveness that allows his viewers to believe they aren't being manipulated.

Tim Pool is blaming the Russians.

If they're actually behind it:

Based

Pornhub left up underage child rape videos until they were very publicly called out for it.

Porn is also a method of bourgeois oppression. The corporate elites want you to be an easily controlled consoomer.

Pornhub also knowingly hosted child porn. Ready or Not put them on blast for it when you raid a company called "Mindjot" for distributing child porn.

It's still weird to sexualize children. It's less weird when it's teenagers and everyone is of age but it's a weird thing to engage in constantly.

For the health of the internet you want people scattered across millions of websites

I don't understand this point. Federation brings everyone together. I don't understand why it's bad for everyone to spread out.

Preventing congregation weakens the effectiveness of disinformation and propaganda campaigns, and protects against bullying

This is a contradiction. This is an argument for having everyone decentralized rather then together in massive content silos.

Why is federation bad? It's the only way to decentralize without having everyone scattered across millions of sites.

The days prior to 2014 are gone and for the most part, the overwhelming majority of people don't want to register across dozens of sites. Everyone naturally gravitates toward massive content silos where they can get everything in one place.

Because it drives people even deeper into self destructive incel behaviors.

quoting MLK

Wow smh far right extremist /s