[gruez]

>Reddit is heavily botted, including by capital interests.

Is that why /r/all is consistently anti-capitalism and anti-business?

[dmbche]

Read The society of spectacle by guy debord

[nozzlegear]

Can you give us a summary, so we can discuss what you're alluding to without a several-day waiting period while we read the book?

[dmbche]

Not really, or not better than Wikipedia would. Sometimes it's more pertinent to read than to chat about a thing you might read.

You can also not read it, you do you, but it's enlightening.

[swed420]

It's manufactured controlled opposition which is designed to look crazier than unchecked capitalism, and it's succeeding wildly at its mission.

See: wsws.org as a longstanding external example

[gruez]

So if reddit is more left than you are, it's "manufactured controlled opposition which is designed to look crazier than unchecked capitalism", and I guess if it's less left than you are, then they're a bunch of DINOs (LINOs?) like Manchin or Sinema?

[swed420]

It's a bunch of siloed group think offered in a variety of flavors. Definitely not a monolith, though basic liberal types (who virtue signal as being more "left" than they really are) might be the most common user.

Siloed groups are the easiest to monetize to advertisers, and they're also not a threat to a faux democracy.

[tekla]

My god, Bluesky is probably actually run as manufactured controlled opposition from all the crazy stuff you see on there. It makes perfect sense. HOW DEEP DOES THIS GO.

[swed420]

Yes, and it provides something for the X/twitter reactionaries to "react" to.

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