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  • kwomp2@sh.itjust.worksto> Greentext@lemmy.mlAnon dislikes reddit
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    5 days ago

    Thats something entirely different though. Using votes to show disagreement/agreement makes sense as a tool of democratic communication. This goes for comments that contain statements.

    OP describes a “jail” type of usage, where there is nothing to disagree but people downvote amyways (to feel superior maybe), wich sucks cause it reads like hate









  • kwomp2@sh.itjust.workstoScience Memes@mander.xyzElsevier
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    10 days ago

    Succesfully iniating this from the fediverse would be such a massive boost in public visibility and discoursive strength of the project of collectivization of information infrastructure (like lemmy).

    Imagine we fluffin freed science from capital and basically all the scientists openly stated how useful this was


  • kwomp2@sh.itjust.workstoMemes@lemmy.mlIsrael's Perfect Match
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    13 days ago

    If you seek emancipation of anyone or anything by critique, you should read up what others wrote down, that had or have the same goal.

    Otherwise your are individualistically and egoistically sabotaging the very project you want to contribute to.

    Saying the most edgy thing to feel yourself “being on the right side” will not do good to anyone except yourself.







  • … and the whole point is it shouldn’t need explaining. The emphatic “omg being human is so cringe” doesn’t come with explanations, it’s a mere reflection of the social athmosphere of never beeing enough. It emphatically bends to a zeitgeist that contradicts being human itself (making someone say “having a body is cringe”).

    That might seem subversive or creative, but it isn’t, wich is very out in the open once you shift focus on what such emphasis is emphasizing