“Mastodon for Harris” is a Success Story for Fediverse Activism

Same!

You actually give your hard earned money to a millionaire? I'd rather burn it.

I can pitch in a dollar

I mean, I myself was so fucking depressed that it was between the two, so literally anything that the Democrats would put up other than Biden I'm automatically going to be thrilled about. I could think of a few better options, actually quite the handful of better options than Harris, but you bet your sweet ass I'm still going to vote for her and support the ever living fuck out of her cuz fuck Trump.

People are very justifiably terrified of Trump. And Kamala is really something new and fresh

Check out @mstdn.social, I think it's an early one. I don't know how heavy handed it is but I've not had any issues and see a variety of content.

I know mastodon.social is the big one.

I hear good things about fosstodon.org

a lot of instances are really just Redditors who refuse to use reddit. this is especially apparent with the USA defaultism. the best thing you can do is curate the feed with blocked communities and only stay in subscribed, but as we can see here it even bleeds into totally unrelated shit sometimes, so.

ikr, why do people care? it's not like us politics affects anyone outside the us. this is one country that notoriously doesn't meddle in any other country's matters one bit, and has no armed forces or even political influence outside its own borders.

I think this is a very real observation, with not much that can be done.

The best non-USA people can do is to participate and share/produce content which is not US-centric (ideally in their native language too). Unfortunately many communities, even non political ones, often still default to a US-centric perspective and culture, which makes it hard for people to participate.

It's hard to dance around it, more people are needed.

The US is one of the largest english speaking communities worldwide so its maybe not too wild to expect this from english subcommunities. There is a significant amount of japanese mastodon servers and german lemmy servers

Yeah, I've blocked every US-specific community I've seen on the everything feed but it keeps spilling into seemingly unrelated communities too. And it's only going to get worse.

The Fediverse is a big beast with a lot of local instances that have nothing to do with US politics (I may be biased as I do help run one - see, eg, !uk_politics@feddit.uk) and the majority of topic specific communities are less US-focused. Hell, you even have !noyank@lemmy.ml. So you can change things around by expanding and/or pruning your yiur subs.

Welcome to Enshitification

As Lemmy has scaled it's approaching average. The masses have chosen to demonized minority opinions not for profit, but for short term comfort. They'll enshitify socially. It'll be faster than profit max as there's no delay to begin.

I mean, it could be spent on outreach to inform people that Harris is more than just "some woman", for one.

That's not really enshittification, is it?

I was under the impression that Cory Doctorow's definition was largely based on how social media platforms entice people with "free" offerings, then gradually tighten the screws over time to make service worse. This usually happens when a platform becomes the dominant player.