People across the fediverse keep referring to wolfballs as the right wing instance.
I love all our right wing members but that has never been the case.
If you have not seen my Frog in the well video I think that explains our stance pretty well.
Did Jesus refuse to eat with the tax collectors? No, wolfballs does not turn people away because their “politics” are dirty.
Nor do I attempt to cull the post to fit a certain narrative.
Shit post however you want. Say what you mean, mean what you say.
I have many thoughts on this, but haven’t been able to write it down.
I don’t think you are wrong. I thought about this for several years, specifically Wikipedia. A democratic platform to share knowledge became a propaganda piece in just 10 years.
What happened to Wikipedia could happen to every alt tech platform that becomes too big. If we do not understand the mechanism and have anti-corruption from the grassroots, we will never be free of corrupt big platforms.
The Problem: How did it happen ? On Wikipedia on every controversial page, e.g. Project Veritas or AntiVax doctors like Robert Malone, several editors try to balance the extreme left and make the articles objective. But they are outnumbered by more active Leftists…
Why ? Most Lefty activists are sponsored by Diversity Initiatives, where govts and Big companies pay millions to create “Equity”. E.g. Google spent 100s of millions into the extreme Left Vox media or the Young Turks, and similar extreme left propaganda platforms. They can freeload on this $$ and do full time activism.
On the right and center, there are no such sponsorships to pay good editors. The rational editors on Wikipedia have day jobs and families. They can’t spend all day fighting these nuts. This is how everything from journalism to big tech to Wikipedia is corrupted.
Possible Solutions: Make it easier for general public to make a change. On Wikipedia the edits of a new user can be trashed by long time activists and you can be banned just like other censorship platforms. If new users had same amount of power as long time ones, and could not be banned, gate keeping would end… very fast.
Every Astroturf, be it Soros/Gates/Google sponsored DEI, Russian troll farms, Chinese 5 cent army, can be outnumbered by real users, if there are no “Gatekeepers”
That is my proposal to solve corruption of platforms -> more democracy and free speech.
community edited wiki’s are good for lots of information not accurate information. multiple personal works examined in context is better for accuracy.
Yes, I have found articles with large number of editors, both right and left to be very unbiased and objective. But most controversial ones, lets say Rittenhouse, get a majority of left wing activists, and the spin is mad.
This is Corporate money corrupting journalism basically.
Even if a completely new platform was created, it would eventually be corrupt the same way.
Other than getting a lot of conservatives to pump money into hiring good editors - which is really hard, since conservatives generally don’t spend money for such causes, do you have any ideas ?
No ideas at all
A simpler solution would be to turn off the internet, and that’s kind of happening in certain bossy cultries. No matter what you do, all rules, laws, and regulations are subject to manipulation in the name of the one true law, the law of the jungle. Idealism only works when it is backed by real and actual power.
The jungle is more civilized than people think. Emergent morality and “fair play” are instincts even in small mammals like Rats. I have seen this myself (owned around 50 rats)
Dominance through physical power is very unstable. Dictator chimp catches a cold and doesn’t feel too well, nr.2 and 3 gang up, castrate and kill him.
If members of a tribe are treated well by the leader, we get a stable solution. History shows, fair play is the formula for “internal peace”
I actually live in the jungle, but i’ve never had any rats.
Power is not just physical, but that notwithstanding, it is quite the norm in other species to imply physical threat and for older alphas to be overthrown by younger ones
By “LOTJ is the whole of the law”, i mean that it is the norm in civilised society to lie and jockey for power and disongenuously use any rule to win in any scenario. I think of workers rights and how most employment law is useless in reality, or in human relationships, how power - as in the ability to make things happen - is what people really mean when they talk about the imagined effects of wealth. Women aren’t particularly attracted to wealth, but by its power, and also other forms of power, such a popularity/influence/wit, and skills to solve practical problems or keep income flowing.
You are right, but you missed the most important thing… Time Scale. Dominance is only viable as a short term strategy. Its very unstable
Young chimp alphas get torn to pieces as well. They just need to fall sick, and the next 2 biggest chimps, maybe 90% his size will end them.
Yes, but these forms of dominance are unstable. Tyrannical systems are always short lived, check any history book.
This is true, but incomplete. Women were presented with 4 mate choices -> Poor & untalented, Rich & untalented, Poor & talented, Rich & talented. All things being equal, they pick the richer mate.
However when forced to choose between a Rich untalented man and a poor talented one, they preferred talent over money.
A guy with talent is more attractive than a useless idiot who got an inheritance.
…potential, literally being a form of power.
Women tend to be rational when it comes to betting on resources of any kind.
On the instability of force, it can stall endure for a while, and some of the most oppressive systems, whether poltical, corporate, or organised crime, can be enduring.
Men evaluate women on physical attributes as proxy for health and fertility. Nobody is ‘rational’ in this. We are driven by biology.
Some systems like Mafia appear ‘appear’ oppressive, but are symbiotic with their constituents. For example, during Prohibition, mafia influence was massive as they smuggled alcohol to ‘customers’, & during Kyoto earthquake, Japanese mafia provided relief long before govt could react.
Every system is a mix of Oppression and Symbiosis. When the balance tilts to Oppression, regime change happens. This was true during the time of Kings, and its true today with democracies.
What you describe is rationality, albeit with the caveat that free will does not appear to exist.
Regime change happens as a result of sudden economic change - expectations suddenly being not met, something that is anactive risk right now, globally. Economics drives all politics.