We’re just posting anti-union propaganda on the fediverse now?
Are y’all at least getting paid for it?
How many times does satire and irony posting have to backfire on us before we realize that shit only works if the person is smart enough to be in on the joke; otherwise we’re just propagandizing against ourselves.
It’s not a funny bit
Unfunny bits, more so than reactionary tendencies or unexamined chauvinsisms strike at the core of what this community - both in it’s nascent pre-lemmy form and in it’s current instantiation- stands for, and thus presents the single greatest threat to group cohesion and continued existence. Do we not ban such bits as being anathema to our very essence using every moderation tool that is available to us?
No, we do not; our true potential is reached when, much like posting, every member of the community has the unabridged right to commit to an unfunny bit, but through careful cultivation of the right form of thought, chooses unabashedly not to.
Until then, the struggle continues - numquam ponere
Seconded.
It sure looked like a bunch of anti-union posts.
Do it once, it’s satire. Do it 20 times, it just looks like an endorsement.
It’s only a level above an ironic racist or ironic transphobic comm. Irony is fine on a post or comment level, but ironic comms really shouldn’t exist.
irony poisoning, it’s bad folks! Boomers got lead in their blood but by god zoomers have iron in their brain
edit: i do wanna point out that this isn’t so much an issue of ‘smartness’ as “large groups generally fail to understand anything more subtle than a hammer to the head” thing (i.e. a critique of irony in mass consumer culture of which the internet is a part)
large groups generally fail to understand anything more subtle than a hammer to the head
There’s a certain amount of subtlety to the posts that you get when you’re in the loop but that just look like boilerplate propaganda when you’re out of it.
Large diverse groups aren’t going to recognize the tongue-in-cheek irony, so they’ll either see it as outright cringe or low effort pasta. I don’t really see this as influencing anyone, though. Its very ForwardsFromGrandma material.
edit: i do wanna point out that this isn’t so much an issue of ‘smartness’ as “large groups generally fail to understand anything more subtle than a hammer to the head” thing (i.e. a critique of irony in mass consumer culture of which the internet is a part)
Agreed, not the best wording on my part, but in my head the list of words I could use (informed/aligned/sympathetic/etc) was just too long. Went for the simplest.
How we’re treated on the fediverse, and how we treat a lot of comms, is a good example. In both directions folks are reacting to a stereotype of the worst posters. Which, in our case, is 100% of hexbears, and in there case is only, like, 97% percent of temporarily embarassed redditors. That lingering 3% is pretty okay sometimes.
