Hi lemmylemonade.

All these people saying ‘everything is political’ are definitely wrong. They might be wrapped up in human affairs (or even just addicted to social media and so far down the ‘engagement’ rabbit hole they can’t see an alternative), but that doesn’t mean you or I have to be. I agree with you, I would love to filter out political stuff.

So much ‘political stuff’ on social media, including lemmy and mastodon, is information operations by actors looking to manipulate opinion or just drive content, and is directly harmful.

What I do agree with most of the posters in this thread on, is that probably the way to avoid it is to limit all social media as much as possible and try and meet people irl. Social media turned out to be way too potent, it has killed the web as a platform for open and positive communication.

Criminals like privacy, too.

This is moronic.

All apples are fruit therefore all fruit are apples.

Lot of Russian propagandists on here.

But wouldn’t that suggest the authors were smart dumb people with titanic egos?

These people are academics, so surely that can’t be right?

Graphene OS is not for criminals. It is just basic privacy protection.

This cunt must be some sort of shill or plant for government or surveillance capitalists.

Compare the pictures of everyone fit with clean air cycling to work in Beijing in the 70s and 80s, with piles of ebikes dumped in huge piles in a smog-laden Beijing of the 2010’s as fossil-fuel-powered capitalism has grown to the point everyone is driving cars.

Pretty sad and stupid. Bikes are one of the greatest designs - in terms of efficiency - humankind has ever come up with.

Wikipedia has always been right wing, pro capitalist, pro US, propaganda. Very well done, with a lot of reasonable information too (which is of course necessary to allow the propaganda to be effective).