It has surpassed 1 million now

Nice to see with statistical evidence something I’d noticed anecdotally

Emulate classic games

Unfortunately it’s trained on the same US propaganda filled english data as any other LLM and spits those same talking points. The censors are easy to bypass too.

This just keeps aging better and better

Are there any other popular short-form content alternatives right now? Insta sucks and Loops is very much not ready yet.

Bluesky will meet the same fate. It’s “federated” mostly in name only.

Loops is promising though, but it’s obviously not polished enough or ready for mass use yet

Half political/left-leaning channels and half artists

Also finding a bunch of new artists that apparently don’t post much outside Chinese social media

Currently learning Japanese so it’ll take a while to get to Mandarin 😔

Even more Rednote users now, perhaps? Most of the people I followed on TT are already on it lmao

Most of the internet is bots anyway, you and me included

after hundreds of thousands of American users suddenly joined the platform

Over 3 million new US users right now actually, according to Reuters

at least it’s not american spyware.

Maybe read the comment you’re replying to next time?

Hey at least it’s not american spyware. That’s a small improvement at least.

does not have an official English name but means “little red book”

Fucking hilarious lmao

Revolution remains the only way for change. The legal system won’t help us.

If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard.

By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative.

If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology.

If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom.

A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them.

If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained.

What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.

- Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds

Misread this as “pipe” and was smiling 😔

Where’s the inconsistency