▲ 889 ▼ 2 4 6 8 We all must defederate! (lemmy.zip) submitted 2 years ago by jezebelley3d@lemmy.zip to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world 68 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] crsu@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 child) I think social media was invented to cause revolutions permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago* (1 child) Idk, man. If you look at countries currently experiencing lots of public uprisings and revolutionary organizing, they seem to be the ones with some of the least prolific digital media. Myanmar, northern India, and rural Bolivia all have terrible wifi. Folks in "modern" nations like South Korea and Dubai and the UK are increasingly these NEET hermits with no friends or romantic partners or sense of collective good will who just fixate on online phantasm celebrities. Occasionally, one of them pops off and tries to murder a politician. But that's not revolutionary conduct. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago Seems like it's easier to divide people who arr using social media. If they don't have social media, they might go make friends, and those friends might have the same problems, and might seek to solve them... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago* (1 child) Idk, man. If you look at countries currently experiencing lots of public uprisings and revolutionary organizing, they seem to be the ones with some of the least prolific digital media. Myanmar, northern India, and rural Bolivia all have terrible wifi. Folks in "modern" nations like South Korea and Dubai and the UK are increasingly these NEET hermits with no friends or romantic partners or sense of collective good will who just fixate on online phantasm celebrities. Occasionally, one of them pops off and tries to murder a politician. But that's not revolutionary conduct. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago Seems like it's easier to divide people who arr using social media. If they don't have social media, they might go make friends, and those friends might have the same problems, and might seek to solve them... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago Seems like it's easier to divide people who arr using social media. If they don't have social media, they might go make friends, and those friends might have the same problems, and might seek to solve them... permalink fedilink source parent
