These idiots will never achieve anything. ‍️

Thinking is after all what brings about change. (In both directions, unfortunately.) Be as good as you can.

@benroyce @futurebird @randulo

Famously (there's... some paper explicitly about this), the BlackLivesMatter hashtag (and people organizing within it) started on Facebook, not Twitter -- but it grew into a movement on Twitter.
(Likely, and I believe (which is why I'm bringing it up) because of the architecture & resulting dynamics of the platform as a social space (I think the paper also argues that), but it's also possible that the demographics of the platforms (or their role in the media ecosystem? but that feels like it's not NOT "architecture", maybe) also had an impact. Or maybe not, I don't know enough to say likely or anti-likely in either direction here, hopefully the paper covered it I don't remember it's been years.)

this is why Fedi & front ends like mastodon are so important so important
it puts a potential megaphone controlled by those peoples hands completely if they want(technically)
so far the HW efforts to back door our shit not completely successful
as some of us have been at resisting the USG encroachment on secure protocols since the 80's when they started with ITAR restricting encryption

now its social media's turn.. good luck!

well yeah, everyone in *this* thread

not out there

if we get criticism for our actions on the basis of cynicism or perfectionism from some anonymous demanding judgmental voice... who is this person? what are *they* doing? probably nothing but backbiting you

because you act. this bothers them. it challenges their frozen inaction. so they must oppose you, or they have to question their own inadequacies

these are not fellow leftists, these are trolls

I don't judge the ordinary person who has their own struggle, but those who enable the shit going on right now who are in a position of power and allow said shit to continue, and this is happening in many countries, not just the #1 shithole one.

I judge people with all the options who go with the douchebag one anyway. Sue me.

@macacator @futurebird @randulo

The "reach" that you might get on big platforms is not free, sooner or later.

yeah

i'm talking about an internal psychological struggle

but the whole "you're doing something but it's not perfect" sort of "criticism" from outside your efforts, from other "leftists," is some real bullshit

the only real leftists are leftists actually doing something

people sitting and judging others as inadequate or imperfect or "you're doing that but why aren't you doing this" demands etc is nothing but self-serving ego masturbation. it's fake posers

@foolishowl @futurebird

And it's bad now, it was bad back in 2020 and now it's worse.

perfectionism and cynicism are demotivators

the ideal is you just do what you can

thinking it's not enough and everything sucks and then you die, or thinking about all the stuff you can't ever do... neither of those thieves of personal agency mean anything

there is no morality without action

and action, by definition, is imperfect and inadequate

such that, sitting there frozen and unable to act due to these demons of cynicism and perfectionism is just a kind of toxin