In a guest article co-written by Heidi Li Feldman and Tim Chambers, the case is made in favor of political organizing in the Fediverse, rather than through corporate social media.

Both authors bring up case studies in their experience in grassroots fundraising and advocacy for the Harris-Walz presidential campaign through Mastodon and Bluesky.

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[–] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Umm .. Bluesky is "corporate social media", even if they try to act nice registering as a "benefit corporation". Still should not be considered part of the fediverse.

[–] astro_ray@piefed.social 14 points 2 months ago

you can't even consider it a true federated network like activitypub

[–] lath@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

As a country well-versed in revolutions, China can tell you it all ends up as warlords vying for hegemonic dictatorship regardless of the original intent.

[+] BumpingFuglies@lemmy.zip -3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh, please. The USA operates upon being a corporate tool. You're holding the US environment to an unfairly high standard. We have no revolution yet, so just make the best of what we have.

[–] BumpingFuglies@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I'm holding it to the bare minimum standards of a reasonable society. Just because we're used to how shitty things are doesn't mean we shouldn't at least plug our noses against the smell.

[–] apt8@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

I agree with you. Trump is obviously a bad person, AND I don’t trust Harris. Not much I can do about it atm, but something will happen to replace this system. It is only inevitable.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure that line of thinking will go over great when you stay home during Election Day and Trump magically gets elected.

[–] BumpingFuglies@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How very presumptuous of you. You're wrong, of course. If I was apathetic enough to ignore my civic duty, I wouldn't have commented to begin with; I'd've just downvoted and moved on.

Just because I protest the hypocrisy of the Democratic party and their candidate doesn't mean I prefer the unfiltered evil of the Republican party and theirs.

[–] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 1 points 2 months ago

You may find Harris the lesser of two evils, and want a progressive candidate like I think the majority does, but Harris is certainly running a more progressive platform than any in the past few decades. Again a low bar, but it is a step in the direction I think, and what the majority wants to see. I think as government reps get younger we'll naturally see things become more progressive/diverse. It's just waiting out the old white guard.