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Re: Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?

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Post by alex1138 »

One of the things I'm curious about is given Zuck's reputation for childish behavior and jealousy if alternative links will even get outright censored in the feed (or even through Messenger?!)

Google+ "failed" (for various definitions thereof) and while it had numerous failures of its own I wonder how much critical mass it failed to achieve because Facebook was hijacking the sharing of it

Like they hijacked email addresses, to make it hard to move them to another social network https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4151433

Re: Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?

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Post by spencerflem »

PaulHoule wrote: post #337
spencerflem wrote: post #283

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Elon Musk did a Nazi salute, live on stage, twice

They told General McArthur when he was getting a tickertape parade to never hold his hand higher than heart level otherwise people would accuse him of making a Nazi salute. As for Musk, I think he's mentally ill, I think he may have what I've got.

If that's austism, I know several severely austistic people and am diagnosed autistic myself and absolutely none of us have done what can only possibly be described as a Seig Heil. I refuse to believe it was accident.

Re: Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?

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Post by Zak »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #299
lsllc wrote: post #222

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This. After WhatsApp was acquired by Facebook (this predates any of the current political stuff, it was entirely about privacy), I tried to get friends and family to switch to something else -- Signal in fact as iMessage was a no-go because of the lack of Android support. Out of ~30 people, I got precisely 3 people to switch. No one else cared, no one else wanted the hassle of switching. I even got a few comments alo…

You won't get folks to move, because people tend to "stay stuck." Us tecchies (typical HN members) literally can't imagine what non-tech people go through, when encountering tech. It's terrifying, humiliating, and intimidating. The reaction from us techs, does nothing to help, as we tend to sneer at them, and do everything we can, to humiliate them. Fairly typical bullying, but we don't want to admit it, because we w…

I had hoped the generations that grew up with the internet would learn how to use computers. Technical advantages like encryption and social advantages like federation tend to make things more complicated to use no matter how much effort is put into UX.

Most people did not, in fact learn how to use computers http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-co...

Re: Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?

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Post by binarymax »

Going to toss my hat in the ring about community shift. You don’t need to get everyone to move over to a new platform. You have to get the 5 most active members to switch. Communities are very largely built up of lurkers and a very small majority carry the weight of providing leadership and content. No matter the tech you choose, find a way to get those key people to switch and maybe the rest will follow.

Re: Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?

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Post by PaulHoule »

spencerflem wrote: post #342
PaulHoule wrote: post #337

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They told General McArthur when he was getting a tickertape parade to never hold his hand higher than heart level otherwise people would accuse him of making a Nazi salute. As for Musk, I think he's mentally ill, I think he may have what I've got.

If that's austism, I know several severely austistic people and am diagnosed autistic myself and absolutely none of us have done what can only possibly be described as a Seig Heil. I refuse to believe it was accident.

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Re: Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?

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Post by protocolture »

mattlutze wrote: post #86

Go low-tech and start printing a small local newspaper. Pay for it with ads from local businesses, and give it away for free at all those stores. Get your regional Chamber of Commerce to help set you up with connections and sales channels.

Add to this:

Organise the newspaper on the new platform, advertise it on both.

If all the complainers have to move to the new platform to complain, or chat about it adjacent to you thats where they will end up.

Re: Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?

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Post by jfactorial »

bko wrote: post #325
jfactorial wrote: post #256

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I think "techno fascism" is a term people are using to describe tech company CEOs operating as unelected oligarchs embedded within the new US government. If you're looking for a better term, we could call it "technocratic anti-liberalism" to perhaps cover all the bases. People are attempting to describe the current situation in which the wealthiest humans in all of history are supporting an anti-liberal executive by…

Just leaving this there: > Over 90% of political donations from employees at major tech companies like Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google have gone to Democrats since 2004. > In 2020, 90% of contributions from the internet industry went to Democrats, while only 9% went to Republicans. > However, there are signs of a slight shift in recent years: > In 2024, 15% of donations from employees at major tech compa…

Elon Musk is actively supporting AfD, the current far-right nationalist German party whose members have been caught sharing Nazi memes on Facebook with one another and, well, just read about them. He interviewed their leader on X in which the two of them agreed to rewrite history by saying Hitler wasn't far-right and was a communist. He wrote an op-ed in support of them. He stood behind a podium with the Seal of the President of the United States on it and did a Nazi salute two times in a row.

> broadcasting Nazi ideology and making Nazi salutes

This is a fact, not a rhetorical device.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_for_Germany

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