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@detectivenyx

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nyx @detectivenyx

2/28/2024, 8:44 PM

@Cascadian-Girl asked:

Have you thought of archiving/backing up your Tumblr blog? I've heard it be possible to do (though might take a bit lol)

considered it, but it's just admittedly too much effort to do. i hate that this is the current state of things and that they're almost definitely going to get even worse.

i'm also a paranoid cynical asshole because i'm very much of the opinion the enshittification of the internet is deliberate to stop marginalised people from having anywhere near an equal voice to speak out about injustice because that might give people hope and reasons to uproot capitalism. all i'm saying is if louis XVI and marie antoinette could've gotten the french peasantry hooked on twitter, they would've died peacefully of incest-related complications several decades later rather than getting decapitated

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Cascadian-Gal @Cascadian-Girl3/1/2024, 1:53 AM

i've actually read a lot of similar takes from like major left orgs actually. Basically early social media actually helped a lot with actual organizing so the change in the 2010s to shifting social media to deliberately encourage combativeness and now the acceleration of that with enshittifcation is at least partially to blow up those centers of organizing and basically like neutralize it as an actual threat. It's definitely a major loss for a lot of people. I personally don't think it'll be enough to preserve the current order on its own since things still suck and people were able to act against it even prior to the internet but it definitely fucking sucks.

That being said the possibility of French Revolution drama being internet drama is actually incredibly cursed, they were already basically the worst internet arguments but irl lol

nyx @detectivenyx3/2/2024, 2:18 AM

it's definitely something i've noticed - the internet grows a lot more hostile even on websites were attempts to monetize have just absolutely failed. it's designed around engagement, and very much a thing where No Such Thing As Bad Publicity - trolling is straight-up a career you can do, even if not in name, and it's extremely easy to incite political harassment via trolling. people just like, do not use block buttons very much anymore.