To be clear I actually have had very positive interactions with 99% of .ca. And I don’t think that the admins are behind it, I genuinely think there is a group trying to sour usaians perception of canadians. I’ll DM you some examples as soon as I get a chance to go through my voting and block history but it might be a bit because I’m working 12s until sunday and I want to give you actual good examples not just people that happen to be dicks on .ca.
Seems to me he has already given up. Which kind of proves the point of the post he responded to.
People are giving up in advance. No energy to fight to get another Biden.
So my advice is that avoiding that should be part of the fight.
I wouldn’t say I’ve given up, but I think my forms of resistance are invisible. We’re seeing a ton of censorship and media repositories and resources being attacked. My spouse is a physician, and they may have been part of some groups of physicians on Facebook that did peer organizing, and that is no longer a safe space, so I use my sysadmin skills to maintain private social networks for them to collaborate on; I am also doing a large archiving service that is semi-private using zimit and mwoffliner to go into kiwix so the government can’t kneecap their ability to provide medical care that may include things dis-favorable to the regime. I regularly snapshot and offline critical resources to them via a network of crawlers I maintain.
I recommend reading Every Man Dies Alone - even the smallest act of resistance is significant, even as small as leaving derogatory postcards around Berlin during the war. Providing support for those targeted by the regime surely goes further than that.
You’re arguing with a 1 month old account, fyi. Don’t get sucked into people trolling or telling you to give up.
If I didn’t know any better I would think there is a larger motive behind all the very blatant trolls that keep popping up on .ca.
Well, I’m on ca and I’m the one the 1 month old account commented to.
I’ll bring this up with the mods.
.ca has been very stable since I’ve been on and it requires a certain amount of info and a mini essay prior to joining.
I don’t want the only place I find we have left to be tainted by this sort of thing.
By any chance, if you wouldn’t mind, could you send me any other examples of trolls you have noticed?
To be clear I actually have had very positive interactions with 99% of .ca. And I don’t think that the admins are behind it, I genuinely think there is a group trying to sour usaians perception of canadians. I’ll DM you some examples as soon as I get a chance to go through my voting and block history but it might be a bit because I’m working 12s until sunday and I want to give you actual good examples not just people that happen to be dicks on .ca.
Cool. Appreciate it.
Seems to me he has already given up. Which kind of proves the point of the post he responded to.
People are giving up in advance. No energy to fight to get another Biden.
So my advice is that avoiding that should be part of the fight.
I wouldn’t say I’ve given up, but I think my forms of resistance are invisible. We’re seeing a ton of censorship and media repositories and resources being attacked. My spouse is a physician, and they may have been part of some groups of physicians on Facebook that did peer organizing, and that is no longer a safe space, so I use my sysadmin skills to maintain private social networks for them to collaborate on; I am also doing a large archiving service that is semi-private using zimit and mwoffliner to go into kiwix so the government can’t kneecap their ability to provide medical care that may include things dis-favorable to the regime. I regularly snapshot and offline critical resources to them via a network of crawlers I maintain.
I recommend reading Every Man Dies Alone - even the smallest act of resistance is significant, even as small as leaving derogatory postcards around Berlin during the war. Providing support for those targeted by the regime surely goes further than that.
This is exactly what a good resistance looks like. Keep it up!
Good to hear you haven’t given up.
Keep up the good fight. 👍