P03 Locke

Be careful what you wish for: Reddit admins turned VOAT into a right-wing cesspool overnight by banning a few repungent subreddits. They all jumped ship for VOAT, and polluted the community. Of course, this was probably all planned to get rid of an upstart competitor.

There is no reason why Lemmy and its forks can’t connect to these sites either. People are just incredibly confused on here and do not see their own potential.

The internet doesn’t run on potential. It runs on actual fucking features.

The fact that I don’t see a mix of Mastodon, Lemmy, PeerTube, and other mediums on my front page just makes me angry at the lost potential of what this protocol is supposed to be about.

Veritasium does a good deep dive into Clickbait:

Veritasium is owned by an private investor firm and has his own problems with propaganda.

it’s a government agency enforcing immigration law, not goose-stepping brownshirts.

“Enforcing immigration law” = Deporting anybody they think looks too brown

And yes, they are goose-stepping brownshirts, or at least they wish they were.

Brexit was a Russian op.