I always thought my algorithm was filtering the rightwing media and I am aware that there’s a giant traffic happening on the other side.

I was checking on Tommy robinson’s “documentaries” and noticed that they were hosted on rumble. Heard the site before but never bothered to check tbh.

And it’s as you’ve expected. On the paper it’s like YouTube rejects. It’s spitting out only political crap. It’s scarily what exactly same formula I am seeing on my feed. and I’m sure your feed too. People reacting to unintelligible people, roasting them, a face watching trump and wowing or aoc and mocking them. The shit are quite low blow. Ofc they are- but the point I wanna make is the view counts on the page. Some of them are millions. That isn’t a “YouTube reject” number. That IS YouTube number. So these websites are probably funded by tech giants and at this point I feel like we’re trying to fight a war already lost. This is about fighting rich people who can “purchase” power with 0 money. For f sake, Elon literally purchased afd to win in Germany.

I am starting to think that we should be using these racist platforms more. To see and be aware what the fuck is happening outside our filter bubble. I don’t know how effective that would be though (because at the end of the day politics are just attention economy rather than prosperity)

Pentagon officials are considering withdrawing US support for British sovereignty over the Falklands as leverage to push Andy Burnham toward Nato’s 5 per cent defence spending target. An anonymous senior US official said Britain would get “special attention” in Washington’s review of allies and that Starmer’s June defence plan fell short, adding that nothing was ruled out. The US is formally neutral on the Falklands; a leaked April memo first raised the idea, which Rubio dismissed, but the Telegraph says the discussion is ongoing.

Hola all!

Joined lem a week ago. So far I’m really happy that this is a slow community. It’s not hyper-consumer news and I don’t get to see 500 new posts about people punching each other or what trump did like 10 minutes ago.

Just wondering from some of the comments, some people either feel like really drone minded or having a hard time to accept the sun is blue, just because.

Makes me wonder some of them are actually bots. Not saying this as in derogatory way. Compared to Reddit, how is the bot situation on lemmy? How often the data is being scraped off and used to manipulate people here?