It seems the 50501 movement is facing some predictable problems on commercial platforms.
On Reddit, the 50501 subreddit has temporarily shut down over abuse. This comes after reports from users that the community is “obviously being astroturfed”. No word as to when it will be back online.
It seems things are not much better over at Facebook, where there is apparently frequent calls to stop protesting this and that, with a Reddit user commenting that the group “feels like it’s imploding”.
This is hardly surprising given how commercial social media has repeatedly shown itself to be easily manipulated, but it’s still fascinating that it’s bad enough to shut down the whole Reddit community. Although we are certainly in a better place over here we are not immune: Make sure to be vigilant and to report suspicious activity.
If anyone is on Facebook, maybe now is a good time to give people there a few pointers towards Lemmy/PieFed.
THAT
MEANS
WE’RE
WINNING
Fuck em
It will always feel like it’s imploding, online. Go meet up with the people. They’re not imploding.
Yup. The battle is in the street, and that’s the only place it could be.
Another question is where the discussion should be. Maybe there’s a lesson to be learned from Occupy Wall Street, taking the discussion in the streets as well.
Oh, I’m imploding, i assure you.