Asklemmy has been a great place for information and resources. What are other some great resources everyone should know?

Kiwix is my recommendation. https://www.kiwix.org

  • @Candelestine
    18•1 year ago

    I don’t recommend it to others because it’s a fucking minefield, but once you know how to identify someone trustworthy, youtube becomes a top-tier source of sources.

    Unfortunately it’s mostly garbage, and you have to avoid a lot of the entertainment stuff or the algorithm will pick up on that and start giving you more “entertaining”, unreliable youtubers and fewer good ones.

    • @[email protected]English
      8•1 year ago

      I have the algorithm completely turned off because I lean FAR left but I was getting a lot of incredibly vapid, conservative, Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan, Steven Crowder, Elon Musk hero worship, military hoo-ra pew pew pew! guns are cool, right guys!?!?!, defense contractor, anti-mask, grind culture, toxic masculinity BULLSHIT recommended to me.

      Now, I get NOTHING recommended to me AT ALL other than the safest stuff from my subscriptions. I prefer it…but it’s hard because it doesn’t even track my watch history anymore unless I specifically add a video that I like to a playlist. It’s easy to see how impressionable, smart young men can be propagandized into becoming anti-labor, card-carrying members of Y’all Qaeda, having this billionaire worship, utter horseshit shoved down their throats all day 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢.

      IMO, it’s going to cause the downfall of society, having these dangerous sociopaths enriched and amplified by social media algorithms.

      edit: this comment motivated me to start a new community for Jordan Peterson debunking. 😅😅😅

      • @moistclumpEnglish
        11•1 year ago

        I didn’t know that you could turn off the algorithm?

        • @djc0English
          5•1 year ago

          Given they way they linked directly to all the things they say they despise, my guess is you can’t turn the algorithm off and this is a troll post.

      • @CandelestineEnglish
        7•1 year ago

        Regardless of its danger, navigating it is the job of our generation, no less important than the tasks of those that came before.

        In my experience, it’s about the side content. The quickest way to get to Jordan Peterson is to google a lot of gaming videos. This is just basic demographics and marketing, ever since gamergate. Gamers are often teen boys. Teen boys frequently like bullying people. Gamergate was a bullying campaign.

        All there really is to it. Since it worked and increased profits, they kept or reinforced it.

        Breaking their market lock is the key step forward imo.