nyamlae

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[–] nyamlae@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And more than just realizing that, we need to find a realistic path to take that power away from them.

[–] nyamlae@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] nyamlae@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

To expand on your second point in case anyone isn't sure what you mean:

Different browsers render webpages slightly differently, because they use different "engines". The most popular browsers are Chrome or Edge, both of these which use the Blink engine, whereas Firefox uses a different engine called Gecko.

Web developers want their websites to work for most people, so they develop websites that are optimized to run in Blink, which means they sometimes don't look as intended on Gecko (Firefox). It's not Firefox's fault that developers are doing this -- of course developers want to reach the most users possible. There's nothing wrong with Gecko, either -- if it were more popular, then developers would build sites for it instead of for Blink. But, this issue of sites breaking can sometimes turn people off.

(Conversely, I develop for Firefox first, so sometimes webpages I make don't render properly in Chrome/Edge. That's not ideal, but I don't care much. I think Gecko is the better + more consistent engine, and I'm not interested in chasing mass appeal.)

[–] nyamlae@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No we're not. Why are you speaking for other people?

[–] nyamlae@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

That's not how the burden of proof works. Regardless of what they're doing, you're also making a claim, and are refusing to back it up.

[–] nyamlae@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] nyamlae@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Rebranding to a 2 syllable name can be a good idea, without it being the main factor in determining a platform's popularity.

Also, I think Misskey's name is more confusing because the use of "Miss" and the way it was marketed makes me think it's a space for women (and possibly furries).

 

A good bit of literature has studied the problem and arrived to recommendations that overlap in parts & depart in others with this playbook.

A former parliamentarian of the Hungarian government studied its slide into illiberalism, and suggested remedies for the current, similar trend in the US. Resist in the courts & media, and build a powerful social base at the state & city level throughout the country. The latter means

the Democratic Party must reconnect with the working class to preserve liberal institutions

Doing that means

  1. "creating new and strengthening existing local organizational structures, especially labor unions". Do not "on issues important to the active base only" such as "media freedom or democracy": this leads to "failures of mass mobilizations". "[E]ngage with [ordinary people] outside elections, focusing on issues that matter to them".
  2. "[T]o push through popular reforms that elites oppose", free "the party from elite capture" by shifting financing "from the corporate elite to small and micro-donations".
  3. "[C]ommit to left-populist economic policies".
  4. "[L]earn symbolic class politics", "embrace the mundane and be down to earth".

you don’t protect democracy by talking about democracy — you protect democracy by protecting people

I'm seeing the playbook overlap a bit with points 1 & 4, diverge from point 2, and not treat point 3.

Another article reviews research observing a decades-long trend of class dealignment: workers abandoning the left-wing party & joining the right. As unions have weakened and Democrats abandoned them, the party has increasing relied on & shifted appeal to urban middle class professionals & minorities. The review names 4 paths researched or discussed to reverse dealignment.

  • inclusive populism: "appeal to working-class voters’ sense of resentment at economic elites and stress how elites use racial resentment to divide segments of the working class that share a common interest in economic justice"
  • anti-woke social democ­racy: make "a clean break with factions of the party that embrace unpopular social and cultural messaging that alienates working-class voters"
  • deliverism: "pass and implement large-scale economic reforms that benefit working Americans"
  • institutionalism: "[reinvigorate a] labor movement capable of advancing working-class interest in politics and [re-embed] Democratic and progressive politics into the lived experiences of working-class communities"

It looks like the playbook is going with anti-woke social democ­racy & institutionalism, rejecting inclusive populism, not mentioning deliverism.

They seem to think the way to win the working class is to go more MAGA-like (anti-woke social democ­racy) instead of trying a competing strategy like inclusive populism. It also looks like they're choosing not to break from elite capture, which seems like a huge mistake.

[–] nyamlae@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

People talking about sex is not torture. Get a grip.

[–] nyamlae@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

there's no fucking handbook for what we're going through right now

There are literally thousands of books about how to resist fascism. It has been a mainstream topic for decades now.

For starters:

The history of boycotts shows us that sustained boycotts can be enormously effective. During the civil rights movement, the Montgomery and Tallahassee bus boycotts ended racial segregation on local bus systems. Sustained boycotts were also instrumental in ending apartheid in South Africa.

Maybe we should give more credit to people doing imperfect things than to those doing nothing other than pointing out how imperfectly those things are.

Criticism is essential to building stronger movements, and any organizer worth their salt can handle criticism without an emotional outburst.

People doing things imperfectly can be more harmful than just not doing them at all. One-day boycotts damage the reputation of boycotts as a whole, which makes people more reluctant to participate in them because they view them as pointless and ineffective.

[–] nyamlae@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I disagree. Posting and ghosting still helps people keep up to date with any news about the organization.

I'm not going to go out of my way to check a bunch of different org's blogs (and I'm not a fan of RSS), and prefer to be able to get news through social media. I only get news outside of aocial media when I want to properly study something in depth.

[–] nyamlae@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

For some reason your comment appears uncensored to me, but the top commenter's is censored.

[–] nyamlae@lemmy.world -2 points 4 weeks ago

But it does show the importance of losing the stress and having a meal before an exam. :)

Babes no it doesn't, you're smart and love physics lol. Don't get delulu about it

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