Does this mean, we don’t have to follow certain rules and we can conduct massive raid reddit operation? We can literally do that since there is no rule about that.

  • KommandoGZD@lemmygrad.ml
    411·
    3 years ago

    Honestly never understood why leftists don’t use the internet more to their advantage like right-wingers and glowies do. Small numbers mean nothing when you’re able to use 1.) bots, 2.) the algorithms against social media platforms. An unusually large amount of upvotes, retweets, views, awards, shares, etc within the first couple minutes of posting gains a post so much traction it’ll just take off on its own at that point. Which is why reddit, twitter, etc front pages look the way they do.

    • Rafael_Luisi@lemmygrad.ml
      34·
      3 years ago

      Thats what actually having morals do to an mf. Honestly we should start learning those dirty tricks so we can counter attack the reactionarys with their own weapons.

      • KommandoGZD@lemmygrad.ml
        22·
        3 years ago

        As Marxists we know where the prevalent morals at any given point in time come from, what they are reflective of and who/what they serve. Clinging to morals that help the bourgeoisie is bourgeois. We need revolutionary morals.

        We need to stop deluding ourselves into thinking hundreds of millions or billions of people will suddenly become communists if we just hand out Kapital copies everywhere and spam the internet with marxists.org links. This pure revolution where everyone was included simply by the merit of the arguments is an idealist, utopian fantasy. We need to stop thinking petty things like creating engagement is beneath us and we need to start using the tools of the bourgeoisie against it when they’re handed to us on a silver plate like this.

    • CoinOperatedBoi@lemmy.ml
      191·
      3 years ago

      Reddit is literally designed to facilitate astroturfing. If you can focus on small yet growing subs, you can get a relatively small post to the front page pretty reliably

      • KommandoGZD@lemmygrad.ml
        12·
        3 years ago

        Exactly. They really all are. That’s the entire logic of social media. Whatever generates traffic and engagement will get big.

        I’m pretty damn sure a handful of people working in tandem could’ve reliably made the front-page on GZD, despite its tens of thousands of members. Doesn’t even matter if you get hundreds of screeching libs in the comments, because that just means more views, traffic, shares, etc.

        • Breadbeard@lemmygrad.ml
          15·
          3 years ago

          small sidenote: some time in 2011/2012, there was an article in some electronic music magazine about fake accounts from all sorts of undemocratic states being used to fill the likes on facebooks of artists like David Guetta, Umek and many many other large deejays. most of the clicks came from Pakistan, Egypt, Bulgaria, Albania, Slovakia, Oman, UAE, Saudi Arabia e.t.c. at a time when these places neither had a proper club life or electronic music industry (this came later with the beginning of EDM festivals and the full on commercialisation of the rave scene by a single event management corporation (with a very very dubious head and pretty rightwing, casino/trump related people).

          this was the test run and the electronic music industry has always been a hiding and funding spot for rightwing extremism, be it the techno demonstrations in tiflis or ukraine (where techno and nationalism are hand in hand), the takeover by identitarians of the european electronic music scenes back down to all the history described in certain movies about the british ICF hooligan gangs and the rise of the acid house movement.

          as much as i love partying, the industry is fucking sinister and it used to be/is the testing ground for so much social engineering

        • Breadbeard@lemmygrad.ml
          72·
          3 years ago

          give a homeless person some money to buy and register a prepaid, … 20 $ per account nowadays…