Gravity Is A Social Construct, And That’s Ok YT

Edit: I see you’ve already linked the video downthread.

Oh, no! Not Lemmy downvotes! What will you trade in for equity when the Fediverse goes public?

Link: Paywalled. Experts? Dubious.

A page from the civil rights era:

Chicago Tribune 1966

@disguy_ovahea has no idea what he’s talking about. He apparently attended a couple of protests and thinks he’s now an expert on social change.

A horse race has about as much to do with women’s right to vote as Stonehenge does with climate change, but that didn’t stop Emily Davison’s direct action at the 1913 Epsom Derby from being a watershed moment in the struggle for women’s suffrage.

No.

Thank you, Lisa Song, for cutting through the bullshit.

Does invidious work for you? https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=gYwqpx6lp_s

You really have to scroll down google results to find Just Stop Oil’s social media due to the incredible publicity this action has generated about climate change resistance. Their Twitter account is https://twitter.com/JustStop_Oil, and they’re smashing their fund-raising targets via chuffed.

AFAIK the Economist’s Democracy Index and the Human Development Index use methodologies and statistical methods generally respected by social science.

Ad Fontes is a grift posing as a public interest institution to re-package the horseshoe theory and sell it back to gullible people for $500 memberships while promising institutions greater ad revenue if they play along with the con. It’s another tool of the consent manufacturing industrial complex. Are you even aware of their methodology? It’s a joke.

You take credibility advice from an organization that proudly identifies itself as right of CBS News and The Weather Channel?

Isn’t that a little bit biased?

If you think the article is lying, say so. Don’t hide behind the ‘impartiality’ grift.

Re-creation in the Watchmen series

Thanks, added to the post-text.

Long live roof ninja!

My favorite slippery slope argument YT

TIL that Trump’s Russian patronymic name is Fredovych.

I joined Reddit because of the thoughtful discussions, and because it was well moderated, site:reddit.com became an extremely useful search term to find answers to difficult questions. I didn’t have much appetite for meme communities and ironic shitposting. It is frustrating to try and discuss the nuance of an article with a pool of people who comment with their knee-jerk reactions to the article title but aren’t interested in the actual content.

My thinking has since shifted since I started studying patterns for good community-building as a Fediverse admin. It can take significant parts of an hour to engage with long-form content like an investigative report or video essay, and that severely limits who can participate constructively in the comments section. Meanwhile a meme takes seconds to digest, which is more typical of available leisure time. A post on !documentaries or !infrapolitics is lucky to get a dozen votes and any engagement, while it is unusual for !memes posts to get fewer than 100 votes.

I’m still garbage at finding good memes or making my own, but I’ve come to respect that while a lot of the discussion they provoke isn’t particularly constructive, the sheer volume of the response and the mechanisms of moderation and vote filtering mean some surprisingly insightful discussions can arise in ‘low-effort’ post comments. And people who engage with meme content often experience it as a gateway to more serious communities on the server.

While the traffic to a meme community can spill over to your other discussions and draw additional attention to your server, I don’t suggest creating one if you no longer have the appetite for that kind of content. Meme communities require at least as much moderation as more serious communities, and are more likely to attract trolls and bad actors. But If you can find people interested in creating and maintaining them based on your server’s ground rules, I don’t think it’s a bad idea to include those kinds of communities on your server.

I see now that all the posts from “Lemmy.VG for Vegans” (@bridge) are reposts from reddit.com/r/vegancirclejerk - that’s a pretty risky strategy. Most of the posts on Reddit appear to be satirical attacks on veganism, but decontextualized from their original post username and the post history of that account, it’s less easy to independently discern which are ironic ragebait and which might be sincere.

We’re experimenting with the use of bots on SLRPNK, but mirroring Reddit content is not a use that we consider wise for a number of reasons.

If you come to the server to troll or argue with vegans, you’re uninvited.

I like the effort you’ve put into customizing your UI.

I see you’ve been around for a couple of months longer too. Do you have a relationship with [email protected] or have you never interacted?

Sorry, duplicate post.