“free” is the sound that natural gas makes as it is released from its underground prison …

also propaganda is just political ads, and the way companies make money on the internet is by showing ads …

lemmy does have problems though. Lots of emotional, judgemental and brigading content still. But it’s less here than elsewhere, probably.

first of all, it’s a broad overgeneralization to assume that all social media is created with the intention to manipulate people. there was honest people running social media, but it’s long past. (in the corporate domain)

• social media can be useful if it presents non-emotional, non-brigading content. rational discourse is one of the valuable options possible. throwing away the whole internet because Xitter sucks is throwing away the baby with the bathwater.

• but yes, social media is the new Volksempfänger and manipulates people (social engineering)