Gen-Z pre-purchase AAA games and hang out on r/Marvel salivating at the daily question some Intern cooked up for that day just so executives can mark “engagement UP” on a monthly teams call. Get fucking real. It’s the most corporate owned generation to exist.

Just look at the state of the internet now. Look at how it is built. There can be no room for creation and new. It’s all mods trying to copy and paste last weeks questions to keep numbers up. Step outside that and BAM you’re banned. Must keep the trains running.

All of this is to capture people and sell their attention to marketing teams to sell that weeks pokemon or action movie. It is so inherent in the way the internet is now that Moderators don’t even know that’s what they’re doing, let alone the users. Forums are not suppose to be like this. The internet was never suppose to be like this. You’re suppose to see a butthole every now and then. That’s how you know you are in an area they dont’ control.

I just had comments removed for saying there is a lot of Chinese propaganda and spamoflage on lemmy.

https://lemmy.world/comment/23627546

Nope I’m putting them on a pedestal. Get wrecked

It’s almost like we’re suppose to build and guard our communities and interest against tho… sorry I meant do nothing and complain.

End of the day it is on us to actually use the tools of haters and trolls to fight back against any of this stuff. But we police ourselves. They trained us to police ourselves away from the tools.

We created the internet. We learned we can use it to shape culture and push back against these rich interests but they also learned it at the same time. So they covertly used bot accounts to push us away from ways to shape our world and instead trained us to use this stuff to post about beans and “its morbing time”

But as doctors, was there no fight back against this. I don’t know how. But genuinely asking. Like if a plumbers knew some new law came in that endangered people and they just went with it, are they not responsible

Is that how a proper society works.

But how do you think that happens. You need to sustain cultural relevance but we gave up a presence on cultural platforms

Yes

Wouldn’t that be evidence that this was poisoning the well

I am fairly certain this is the case.

I think they are. I think tech forums are essentially places to convince people to hate tech. Hate progress. Meanwhile other countries embrace these new technologies and develop, build and iterate.

Spamoflage

I’m starting to see that China may have a large presence on lemmy. It would make sense with the .ml groups. You can see a lot of pro China stuff here plus lemmy is a generator against things like AI which benefits China.

It really feels like there’s an unseen hand making up these claims and pushing it out there which a big group of people then just run with it. Id love to be able to study where we’re seeing these first instances of these theories popping up. Those places should be watched

But the guy is alive. How do you fake that.

Is your argument that Chinese government is not using technology to restrict freedoms?

How is that being upvoted

I would say that decades of western Hollywood has primed the population to mistrust any new technology and only see potential dystopian ends in exchange for entertainment. Combined with China spreading propaganda to encourage those views in western nations. Sites like lemmy and Facebook are heavily used as generators to spread mistrust.