Buying advertising on Facebook seems to be the defacto way to influence masses.
Facebook has incredibly invasive data collection, aggressive algorithms and therefore very fine grained targeting options and it has a bit over 3 billion active monthly users (many of them 100% captive because they won’t have Internet without Facebook)
Looking at the voter map, I'm not sure I can feel a lot of sympathy, to be honest. It would seem to me that the people made their own bed and now have to lie in it. And much like all other ultra conservative wins in other countries in last decade - the rhetoric of "strong man" seems to be popular, especially in rural, poor areas.
But it's ok, they're manly man tough, like in the good old days, when men were iron and ships were wood!
Leave them to it, they'll tough it out. They've earned it.
People see social media and other things like e-mail and video content as free services.
They just want to join and get on with their lives. Most "normies" don't really care about being served ads or being tracked. If you tell them about the surveillance industry behind the scenes they just shrug and keep scrolling their Insta feeds and clicking their youtube videos. Even people who complain about ads seem to be incapable of action if you suggest they install ad-blocker.
The people who understand or care about the problem are the ones who might donate, but not all of them. It's a subset or an subset.
As Jerry says, the donation economy would not be sustainable if the Fediverse was the size of Facebook. Unfortunately that has more to do with human psyche than actual technical merits of ActivityPub or the Fediverse.
Uh, there are plenty of Nazis and tankies on fedi. Chances are you’re using software written by hardcore tankies (Lemmy devs). Not everyone is "in the know". They just follow their brands and influencers. And most don't really care, they don't engage too much, just retweet and like the latest football results or whatever the outrage algo puts in their feed. Most people don't think deep thoughts about their social media platform.
Been watching PWHL - it's free on Youtube! It's amazingly good hockey and broadcasting is generally really well produced as well. I'd love to see the league grow and for that they need money. Wish there was a way to do that without dropping into the dirty pit dubious bedfellows that the NHL keeps, but unfortunately I think that might be a hard ask at this point.
this is potentially the last social identity you have to create.
..as long as you stay centralized on the central BlueSky instance. Once you move out to a (potential, future) federated server, that identity (and it's super duper verification) doesn't follow you.
Buying advertising on Facebook seems to be the defacto way to influence masses.
Facebook has incredibly invasive data collection, aggressive algorithms and therefore very fine grained targeting options and it has a bit over 3 billion active monthly users (many of them 100% captive because they won’t have Internet without Facebook)