Thanks for posting this. Most cyber technology is way outside of my wheelhouse, but I’m trying to learn what I can just to get some semblance of free speech and privacy back.

Like the other day, I downloaded a new browser for privacy reasons and used the new browser search engine to look up information about a local government group. Even though I wasn’t logged into any Google accounts on the new browser I got a notification that Google tried to track me when I clicked on the article. Is that just due to having an Android and account activity on another browser?

Also sorry if this is a bananas paranoid thing to ask, but with tracking what speech/information suppression possibilities might be for local governments to partner with bigger corporations or government entities and and target certain citizens through internet service providers to use tracking tactics in combination with platform algorithm control to suppress speech. If that makes sense?

It’s every major platform. Even Substack is just so ridiculous at this point. Idk if it’s even necessarily Russians, but just the ability of wealthy people to buy algorithm control and push an agenda.

I tried to use Substack for a min but just kept getting frustrated with the inability to sort feed content of any accounts unless you follow them already. Like something would happen and I would want to discuss it with a large group of people and learn information while it’s still relevant, but there’s no way to do that.

For some reason I kept seeing the same messaging over and over pushed on my feed trying to convince me that Pete Buttigeg is somehow the same as AOC or Bernie Sanders (which logic should tell you wtf no he’s not) then yesterday I see the same account announcing he’s gearing up to run for 2028 and suddenly it all made sense. Typical establishment bullshit but modernized for the Broligarchy takeover.

Paying for social media algorithm control like advertising so that what people get to experience is nothing social, just media pushing a wealthy agenda but tweaked to their individual feed.

I think Russian propaganda has always been there it’s just been tweaked over the years to match the audience. Reddit has exiled anyone that doesn’t support Musk, so by default the audience is mainly far-right. And it has definitely gotten out of hand to such an extreme that most of reddit is just dead internet. Bot posts filled with one liner bot comments that rarely actually engage in a discussion about anything.

I just assume any content that pushes extreme divisiveness on issues and refuses to acknowledge any sort of logic or gray area is probably due to Russian bot swarms on most major platforms.

Before I left reddit for the final time, if there was a message that was clearly being suppressed, any attempts to talk about it would be met with the most irrational wall of resistance.

Like I tried to post on a sub for federal workers back in late Jan telling people they should be refusing illegal orders being given to them. It started to get some traction, and then suddenly it was just like a swarm of very irrationally angry comments and downvotes. Like a thread could be almost completely dead, with no activity in the last several hours and I would make a comment like that and get one or two upvotes and then suddenly within a minute it would be sitting at -15 downvotes.

Idk if a community already exists for this but I feel like we need a way to teach people how to spot bot activity the same way we teach people how to spot disinformation.

She’s got a work on her sales pitch. “Probably one of the greatest… Oh it’s not for you, it’s more of a Shelbyville idea…”

Thank you! Like I said I’m still figuring things out. The instance I joined says you can’t post images until 40 days after joining. Is there an alternative way to do that?

Oh it was in the ysk community on .world

Thanks!

I guess it would be community specific. Just looking around for places to share stuff, but it seems like it fits in many ways with the topic of the community but also includes aspects that might be in violation of the rules.

I will try just asking individual communities

I guess on a broad topic level the closest would be public health, but it’s been so misrepresented it’s also become an issue of politics and privatization of public information

I am still learning how to navigate everything but I guess mainly community based? I really would like to share literally anywhere I could that would be interested in learning about the information.

Basically I guess it would be most closely a topic of public health policy being greatly misrepresented.

Is there a community for asking a question about the existence of other communities related to a specific topic?

I want to find out if anyone knows about any communities regarding a political topic, but the ask community rules state no politics.