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   Ben Royce 🇺🇦 (benroyce@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 09:28:57 JST Ben Royce 🇺🇦

   bear with me for a second:

   a million reasons, but a big reason the #democrats lost is because the center of gravity for #media has moved to #socialmedia

   where the #trolls and #disinfo play. enough dum dums bought the lies

   the democrats didn't play that game. because what game can they play in that shit?

   it's literally owned by #plutocrats and #fascists

   so... how do we fight?

   we need our own

   and what do we have

   #mastodon and the #fediverse

   we need to grow like a fucking weed

   am i wrong?

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 09:28:54 JST Rich Felker

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     • DrD

     @benroyce @NZedAUS We needed to destroy their platforms and didn't. Biggest fumble of this election cycle was Biden admin not blocking the Twitter sale.

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     Ben Royce 🇺🇦 (benroyce@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 09:28:55 JST Ben Royce 🇺🇦

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     @NZedAUS

     exactly

     we can't play on traditional corporate social media. it's all fascist and plutocrat algorithms

     we need our own

     mastodon is the closest fit

     we need to make it happen

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     DrD (nzedaus@mastodon.nz)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 09:28:56 JST DrD

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     @benroyce Actually, the Harris campaign ran a very fast and engaging social campaign on TikTok and Insta - but they didn't own either platform. It was platform ownership (esp with AI, algorithm manipulation & censorship control) than content that determined the social media power play.

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     :ihavenomouth: (inginsub@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 07:11:26 JST :ihavenomouth:

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