It’s become painfully obvious how easy it is for us the average internet user to have all the content we see be very carefully filtered so we don’t know what’s going on. Last week I broke through back into the protest side of tiktok and saw that the protests were still going on strongly in many US cities. The term Music Festival was used by organizers to avoid filtering but this just highlights the huge problem we currently have using global social media platforms.
- The US citizens are still protesting in all major cities
- ICE is still kidnapping people
- Israel is still committing genocide on Palestinians
I keep saying this every couple of years but we do need to go back to older forms of communication on the internet like blogs, forums , self hosting etc. The corporate social media is all compromised as far as legitimate content goes. The web needs to web again, link to your friends sites directly. Don’t rely on search engines.
Decentralize yourself
Mastodon in some ways is still immune to this because you can run your own instance but admin infighting leads to gaps between instances. Bluesky makes itself sound like it’s decentralized but in the end it is a central business and will in all likelihood become compromised.
Self host your web server when possible, if you use a big provider you’ll probably get filtered by them as well. This is something I never thought would happen but some of it can still be within our control if we choose to.
Be Safe, decentralize yourself.
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