“You can’t prove it DOESN’T work.”

“Yes we can. There are literally thousands of studies proving exactly that.”

It does appear to be the case. This article is peppered excessively with antisemitic dog whistles. One or two could be a coincidence but this is something else entirely.

• “Cabal”
• “billionaire class”
• “Santa Claus” (depicting a literal war on Christmas)
• “imaginary surge in “campus antisemitism.””

The entire premise of the article is that evil Zionists sabotaged the American left and manipulated the election, which is itself an antisemitic trope.

The whole point of using dog whistles is to create a sort of plausible deniability. I’m sorry, but in this case it seems like they slipped one by you.

At least your country is down with the clown.

Wasn’t it proven that the poor guy was convicted on bad science? Didn’t the original judge and prosecutor say he should go free?

I hate this stupid state

Cross-post to “DadJokes?”

Imagine explaining this headline into somebody in 1990.

“Allergy butter” is my new name for Jif. Thanks.

“Don’t worry, Trump will be stopped because of the LAW”, has to be the stupidest argument that people are touting lately. When has that ever mattered?

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There have been some platforms that combined form factors like Friendica and mbin

Deeply disturbing. It’s so easy to forget that this is a picture of Iran in the 1970s.

who view Musk as overly assertive and self-promoting

… that’s one way to put it.

YikYak, GroupMe, Ready Education, Remind, UniBuddy, Viva, etc. Etc.

Reposting this here from the discussion in !news@lemmy.world:

There’s a real argument for a Mastodon use case for news organizations, governments, and colleges.

If they’re just seeking engagement, then they have to wait for the platform to grow. But this isn’t about that.

Many news organizations already have comment sections on their website, and they want to push out information on breaking news as quickly as possible. They need a platform to do those things. So, a lot of them use Facebook for embedded comments on the page and Xitter to breaking news. The thing is that they could use mastodon for both, and run their own instance, which would give them total control and not be at the mercy of Musk or Zuck.

Colleges use expensive proprietary messaging apps for students, clubs, and teachers that they can monitor and adjust to fit their needs. Mastodon offers that.

Governments sometimes end up in legal hot water due to freedom of information, etc. that comes with corporate social media. Mastodon offers the freedoms and controls necessary to disseminate vital information and to allow or reject posts as required by local laws.

The point is that Mastodon is an effective public facing communication system that also allows internal controls by the host.

The only publicity and marketing budget that the fediverse has is us, so any opportunity to promote it is our job. Government, education, news. These are the vital areas to promote.

That’s exactly right.

Classic first adopter problem.

The thing is I believe that there’s a real argument for a use case for news organizations, governments, and colleges.

If they’re just seeking engagement, then they have to wait for the platform to grow. But this isn’t about that.

Many news organizations already have comment sections on their website, and they want to push out information on breaking news as quickly as possible. They need a platform to do those things. So, a lot of them use Facebook for embedded comments on the page and Xitter to breaking news. The thing is that they could use mastodon for both, and run their own instance, which would give them total control and not be at the mercy of Musk or Zuck.

Colleges use expensive proprietary messaging apps for students, clubs, and teachers that they can monitor and adjust to fit their needs. Mastodon offers that.

Governments sometimes end up in legal hot water due to freedom of information, etc. that comes with corporate social media. Mastodon offers the freedoms and controls necessary to disseminate vital information and to allow or reject posts as required by local laws.

The point is that Mastodon is an effective public facing communication system that also allows internal controls by the host.

The only publicity and marketing budget that the fediverse has is us, so any opportunity to promote it is our job. Government, education, news. These are the vital areas to promote.

If news organizations, universities, and governments begin adopting Mastodon, then others will follow

Great, where can I find a list of instances?

Not really, it’s still corporate

I can confirm the suspicion of strangers handing you something. We don’t trust something for nothing.

There are entire YouTube channels about walking up to Americans and trying to give them a $100 bill. Most won’t take it.