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[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Its simple really. All the social media sites do this:

Keep posting more click bait titles that cater to certain political groups while inflating a hostile discussion base via bots, with an urgent need for real human comments to rectify on those hostile inaccuracies that threaten the very foundation of quasi-democracies and the supposed human spirit.

Over time the people will flock and you'll build a working business model of pointless circle-jerks that wastes everyone's time and energy through hostility, jokes and shit-posting propaganda. Then you could become a member of the elite yourself because you have everyone divided in groups, distracted with click-baits, disrupted in thinking and hooked like reptilian war-mongering masochists! Hell you may even think you are helping the community, because you are spreading democracy, fostering discussion and free speech; you don't have to tell anyone about the darker side of your business model- bots, shadow bans or paid opinions!

Then you must watch our for all sorts of attacks coming upon you from all sides over time, because the level of toxicity you have spread through the social media has created a population full of hostility and incapable of real human connections. You will dodge some attacks, yes but eventually; you'll have to come to fantasizing yourself going out in a blaze of glory- scar-face style, because the paranoia is too much and there is no sleep at night. Thinking about what the meaning of everything is and the gradual darkening of your Machiavellian thought processes that keep your business afloat. Drugs take the edge off but never solve the problem, the money is good and you come to realize that you are slowly becoming a victim yourself- numb and robotic.

Soon you realize, that its now time to go all out and create a social media war. You'll improve on your logistics and train your user base to become more hostile after creating profiles on all of them and gaming more control of them like a surreptitious mad king. Your only source of control is hostility and division amongst the content generation of your site. Coded and encrypted words that appeal to the subconscious in various ways depending on the real life physical situations of the users that read, but do not know what is really going on. Constantly improving your processes but always competing, competing against the finality of sabotage from somewhere, anywhere. Including yourself. This is the final division.

So finally as the creation of your own social media empire draws to a close, you become fractured and without any hope. You have lost your soul in the enterprise and the pointlessness of it all. Sometimes looking down the barrel of a metaphorical gun and thinking, how sweet it was and how sweet it shall be; but it cannot last. So you release all the information about all the users to the feds and blow the lid on your own enterprise eventually shutting it down- anonymously. The money you made from it was good and it got a little crazy for a minute, so you move onto the next thing or you retire in florida, living a boring life of phantom complacency reminiscing of your gold old glory days.

That is, until some pissed off user that doxx'd you, eventually pays a visit?

Social Media = its a lot of fun. Just check out what voat was all about!

THE MORE YOU KNOW.

[–]Tiwaking 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (23 children)

  1. Find a community that is going to be removed by Reddit.

  2. Invite them here.

For example: Minds has a very large Vietnamese community. Apparently the Vietnamese were banned from Facebook so they all went to Minds. It was a mass exodus.

[–]magnora7 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (20 children)

Yup this is how you do it. Make sure the invitation is simple and welcoming. Something like "If you're tired of the censorship on reddit, try out alternatives like www.notabug.io and www.saidit.net"

I put the www. so that the URLs are links for them to easily click, and I mention notabug to give them alternatives. It works.

[–]DffrntDrmmr 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

It was you.

In Reddit, I inquired if anyone had any alternatives to recommend and a response mentioned saidit and notabug, so seeing this comment I just checked my old messages — it was your suggestion that directed me here and notabug. I signed up at both.

[–]magnora7 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ha nice :) That's cool

[–][deleted]  (17 children)

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    [–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (16 children)

    If you only say 1 it makes you look like a shill. Offering 2 options makes you look friendly and helpful, which is useful to get people to click the links. I'm surprised you don't see the value of this

    [–][deleted]  (15 children)

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      [–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (14 children)

      It's just diplomacy. Also I genuinely care about giving people alternatives, so it's not just for shilling reasons

      [–][deleted]  (9 children)

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        [–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

        It's not a matter of outgoing and vitality, it's just a matter of communicating my intent clearly

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          [–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

          Haha thanks, I appreciate the compliment. I just eventually realized there are things more important than my emotions, like spreading the truth, and making the truth accessible to others. If I am speaking with kindness and good intent and wisdom as best I can, then I refuse to feel ashamed just because of how some specific person reacts to it in one moment. Maybe they simply had a bad day, who knows? I shouldn't let other people's emotional negativity drag me down when there are so many other better ways to think and feel. And furthermore, those ways of thinking and feeling are often more accurate to the truth than the opinions of people who negatively emotionally lash out. So it's just a healthy way to live, imo

          [–][deleted]  (3 children)

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            [–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

            ugh stop comparing me to the things I hate, when I'm just trying to offer people alternatives to reddit. If I owned notabug you maybe would have a point. Or if I owned reddit. But I don't. Not sure if you're joking or not, but it's not very diplomatic lol

            [–][deleted]  (1 child)

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              [–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

              oh okay lol

              [–]RatherSmallPotato 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

              the Vietnamese were banned from Facebook

              The entire country of Vietnam? wtf?

              [–]Tiwaking 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

              It was something to do with the photos they had uploaded and anyone who had anti-Chinese/pro-environment sentiments or something. Im not too clear on the details.

              They're really friendly though.