Edgelord was the wrong word choice, sorry. I mean argumentative jerks that pick fights over absolutely anything.
Don’t sleep on the actual edgelords either. I got a guy in my replies right now screeching how women in politics are the real fascism because of identity politics.
But the jerks are the real issue.
Only up to a certain extent. The point of federation is that the shit gets spread around the instances.
Also, we have evolved “free speech” kind of ethos that only allows the most egregious of norm violations to be moderated.
This is place is forever lost to the edgelords.
We’re a bunch of assholes in a more or less unmoderated space. Of course discussion sucks.
This sounds like the kind of thing people say who can’t help themselves.
Like resolutions about never drinking again. Or how you really stopped smoking this time, pinky swear. Or how you’re definitely going to lose twenty pounds this year and hit the gym twice a week.
Oh yes, this is generally classified as coordinated inauthentic traffic and moderated away regardless of content.
That is, that was the norm before platforms decided they kind of like fascism if it gets them less regulations and more tax cuts.
I mean, sure, but when a considerable number of the low information voters are uncritically spreading memes produced by domestic extremists inspired by narratives devised by state actors and pushed through state media, is it domestic or foreign? Does it even matter?
This is not a hypothetical. This is literally how major disinformation has spread since MH17, through Brexit, the 2016 election, Covid and beyond.
The Russians, the Iranians, the proud boys and uncle Jack in the family WhatsApp are all part of the same hydra of crap.
I also keep hearing “foreign disinfo” but that makes me chuckle. Of course it exists but it’s not more potent than the domestic disinfo which is even more plentiful.
I’m not sure the distinction is easy to make, or all that meaningful.
The most powerful country in the world is a large disinformation piñata. You whack it with a few memes and poor decisions come out.
You can’t fault hostile intelligence for giving it a go, and there are a lot of hostile intelligence services.
Be that as it may, your ad hoc definition in your first comment was spurious and finds no basis in English language Marxist literature.
Are you the only person using that definition?
Because traditionally English speaking Marxists use them the other way around, as far as I remember, (work is useful, produces use value, labor is economic, produces economic value) if they make that distinction at all.
See for example:
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EDIT
Apparently the English edition includes a footnote by Friedrich Engels:
As has been stated in a previous note, the English language has two different expressions for these two different aspects of labour: in the Simple Labour-process, the process of producing Use-Values, it is *Work; *in the process of creation of Value, it is *Labour, *taking the term in its strictly economic sense. — F. E.
Which reads very much like you are using them wrong.
Can you elaborate on the work vs labor dichotomy?
I’m not familiar with the concept, especially because in my language the two would be almost exact synonyms in this context (unless you are Hercules or what not). And Latin languages just get the one.
Software meant to enrich its creator often isn’t
This is a prime example of what I alluded to in my comment. For-profit capitalism is the establishment politics, so it’s portraid as apolitical.
Also, the establishment politics of the public that must not be challenged in order to make money? Apolitical.
Politics is just another name for the way we decide how to run things. Everything that is not absolutely trivial is political to some degree.
“Apolitical” is just a dog whistle for establishment politics.
Poisoning. You have alcohol poisoning.
Most hexbears are stand up chaps and under normal circumstances we get along great. The main issue as far as I’m concerned is that their posting culture does not align with what I want out of my Lemmy experience.
Basically, they are fighters. They run around the fediverse picking ten arguments at a time, getting in people’s faces, escalating moderation decisions to instance admins and generally have zero chill.
Me, I like to hang out with chill people and relax and shoot the shit about video games and stuff. Yes yes I know western imperialism bad, but after the fifth time I’m done with the topic.
The Olympians are a bunch of whiny ass petty excuses for gods.