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I think you’re underestimating the censorship over there. I agree open communication is good and I used to comment over there a lot—during the initial Reddit migration in 2023 they couldn’t stay on top of it all, or maybe they were more permissive back then. But it all got removed eventually and I got banned even after deciding I should avoid overtly political topics. It’s bad and it’s a waste of time to even try to engage there. Better to wait for their users to come here to educate them, futile though it might be.
I didn’t hear about this “mistake” but I agree it’s problematic and hope my instance eventually moves to piefed. Though I haven’t tried it so I don’t know how well I’ll like it.
On the other hand, I do feel like the ideology of the standard corporate media platforms is about as bad as the tankies and we don’t flip out about that. Makes me wonder about double standards here.
https://lemmy.world/post/32838609
It was interesting.
Yeah, pretty much. I realized that my Israel analogy wasn't even completely on point. It would be more along the lines of someone writing the software who was all cool with Palantir and ICE, and constantly spoke highly of them. That's about the level that I put the Russian government on (which of course isn't to excuse any of the horror of what the US government is currently trying to do; if anything, it goes the other way and throws into relief the horror that Russia has already been for decades now that has been normalized at this point.) And, of course, all our existing corporate social media is okay with Palantir and ICE, they just have more sense than to talk out loud about it.
Yeah they are generally quieter. But we all know where they stand. However, I find it much more difficult to sever myself from them since everyone uses them.