Yes

I think they are. I think tech forums are essentially places to convince people to hate tech. Hate progress. Meanwhile other countries embrace these new technologies and develop, build and iterate.

Spamoflage

I’m starting to see that China may have a large presence on lemmy. It would make sense with the .ml groups. You can see a lot of pro China stuff here plus lemmy is a generator against things like AI which benefits China.

You all deserve this and worse. No reason to complain about it. This is what everybody wanted.

You all complain but in 5 years you’ll all defend it like its a gold standard

Discord did the same thing didn’t they?

Also reddit heavily used bots to fill they site with posts for years. They were one of the biggest ones. Kiss my ass reddit

And time is running out to do meaningful things on any platform. They’re quickly taking them over. It’s not just for fun

In my opinion that makes it a big failure. But also eye opening. There is so many here who say they will fight some nazis in the upcoming Civil War, yet can’t be pissed to do anything now.

Also I’m starting to see moderators may be big contributors to this failure on the left. The right grip and control over groups like it is some military unit is the box I’m talking about. It creates a space where everybody is in lock step or removed. But everybody that remains are all low energy, low effort people. No passion. No energy.

Stay with me for a minute. We know governments and just about any one wages warfare at all times. All except the left. Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk are out there working with Cambridge analytics. Proud boys joined with backyard militias and eventually becoming ICE. Peter Thiel funded Joe Rogan to become the mouth of MAGA. That is what we can see. When people we calling this stuff out, they were called crazy or to go touch grass. But they were right.

We have to assume that behind the scene there is equal or greater effort. You can see this in all our protests. All our efforts. All our ideals. Something is broken. There was 700 million people in the streets without any effect. That wasn’t the only time. Something is steering the left into these black holes of effort. There is an old guard that is protecting this.

We need new ideas and generators. Lemmy should be that. But instead we again get tight boxes and people yelling about car heads and issues that shouldn’t be the upfront focus.

But do you organize in a meaningful way. Like a way that produces some kind of result. If you were the boss of lemmygrad. You’ve taking all your life savings out and lemmygrad comes to you to say they’ve helped organize a protest or some action and as a result you have …

Growing numbers? Changed policy? Changed minds? Originated ideas keep things fresh and exciting?

Where?

And what measurable impact has it created?

Yea?

Do they?

Do you think they are?

You ever take creative people and box them. Lemmy is the box.

Lemmy isn’t the only exemple of this. I was just expecting something different given it is suppose to be left. I was wrong. It’s the worst parts from other boxes.

Lemmy likes to make noise about Trump but would rather not discuss the politics or do anything about it.

Lemmy is the “i don’t do politics”

The left should protest democrats until they put up good candidates

Go back a couple months and lemmy has a bunch of posts defending this using children as the reason. Weirdly only a week or so of activity then it stopped.

So many removals

I’m starting to think there are bots that run on just being contrary to whatever we write. For every comment I see now, there’s one that goes against it in the most absurd way possible. Divide and conquer

This is definitely coming if it isn’t already here.

Sure. Keep telling yourself whatever you need to justify all these losses every day. The left is cooked. There’s no coming back from this. It’s not the fault of the billionaires or the Trump’s or Nazis. It’s the fault of the left for giving it all up and being so unappealing that those assholes could grow and capture the people the left alienated