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"As revolutionaries, we don't have the right to say that we're tired of explaining. We must never stop explaining. We also know that when the people understand, they cannot but follow us. In any case, we, the people, have no enemies when it comes to peoples. Our only enemies are the imperialist regimes and organizations." Thomas Sankara, 1985


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They're lobbying for laws, supporting political parties, and even influencing orthodox economic theories and their spread.
They're also buying publishing houses, survey institutes, and even journalist schools.
That's how you can find people who claim to be neither from the left or the right, but are only knowing/regurgitating opinions broadcasted in the capitalist-owned state(, e.g., solve the deficit by lowering the number of public servants and selling public companies, instead of taxing the billionaires and fighting tax fraud&schemes, after all they're the ones creating jobs and working enough hours to deserve millions, and they'll leave the country if we tax them, not seeing the problem with this race to the bottom).

Just a reminder of our hypocrisy when we're criticizing the state's Pravda while our laws allow the Pravda of the millionaires.

Worker's owned medias and companies would be the obvious third way to private//public ones, or at least the three types in a relative equal mesure, but not >90% of capitalist-owned medias. We could/should also finally accomplish the pluralism that we're so proud of and makes us a "democracy" better than the dictatorships allegedly specialized in brainwashing their citizens(, otherwise how could the authentic popular support be explained, they still need to be sanctioned/invaded/liberated). Concretely, we could give ~100€ every year to our citizens, and let them choose/vote to which newspaper such sum should be allocated, among other ideas. Perhaps that communist newspapers/radios/ideas would finally appear instead of the pseudo-objectivity owned by the wealthiest, who even knows what socialism or capitalism means, and why 'passive incomes'/'lucrative properties' are a theft of the workers, for example ? Or any argument from our enemies, whose narrative is systematically silenced.
Some claim that our freedom of speech on the internet will make such ideas re-emerge, but they've already successfully censored any terrorist point of view, and are still not satisfied, making more than clear that their objective is to control what is said on the internet(, "FReEdOm of SpEecH BuT nOT freEDOm oF ConSeQUEnceS"), this year they're focused on the end of online anonymity, last year it was disinformation and the year before it was hate speech.

Anyway, what was interesting/new here was the mention of social medias, but having a majority of 'workers/readers'-owned mainstream medias is just one more thing that will never happen. Most socialist and republican newspapers belonged to their journalists in the XIXth century.
Just don't doubt that our system is the best, and that we should destroy any country aiming for a different one.

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[–] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Please downvote this comment but don't ban me

Hexbear abolishing downvotes is praxis

[–] sousmerde_rtrdataire@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I.d.k., most of this kind of stuff should be left in the settings i.m.o.(, i.e. whether to display downvotes, to allow downvotes on your publications, ...), but congrats on hexbear for any kind of innovation, i like your extensive use of emojis :D !

An old idea is that it'd be nice to be able to vote from -10 to +10, or at least from -3 to +3

I've also learned a few months ago that Reddit makes more than a billion dollars in annual revenues. Their app hasn't evolved and they're relying on the work of thousands of unpaid volunteers, without any sign that they'll do something useful with that money.
Oh well...

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I.d.k., most of this kind of stuff should be left in the settings i.m.o.(, i.e. whether to display downvotes, to allow downvotes on your publications, ...), but congrats on hexbear for any kind of innovation

As an admin, it's a choice you can make about your instance. Negitive indicators (such as down votes) in social media are linked (according to some studies) to contributing to things like depression, and we believe downvotes can be used as a means of suppressing ideas you don't agree with as opposed to engaging with them, or at least, ignoring them. I very much enjoy downvotes being disabled, and frankly think it should be the default setting.

[–] sousmerde_rtrdataire@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

As an admin, it's a choice you can make about your instance

For those interested : https://mv-gh.github.io/lemmy_openapi_spec/#tag/Site/paths/~1site/put

[–] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

i.e. whether to display downvotes, to allow downvotes on your publications, ...)

I have to imagine if you establish your own Lemmy instance, you can probably configure that as an instance admin

[–] sousmerde_rtrdataire@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yeah, that total ownership is one more good thing with Lemmy. Just have to check that the updates won’t bring breaking changes :)